On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, David Robinson wrote:

        Hi,

> If you put lilo in the MBR (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I don't
> think you need to make the root partition bootable using fdisk as LILO
> runs from the MBR before even the partitions get looked at. 

        It depends on the computer BIOS. There are some that will complain
about "No System disk" or something like that, while others will boot just
fine. But as you stated, is a matter of marking the proper partition
active.
 
        greetings,
        
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