On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:10:57 +1200 Keith McGavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:23:53AM +1200, Rik Tindall wrote: > > >>But beware. Xandros wants its own LILO in order to boot. - In using it, > > >>forget about GRUB! > > > > > >Nick Rout wrote > > >Why does it need lilo to boot? > > > > > If I knew that, I could well still be using it. But Xandros made itself > > a boot floppy as a second option - no grub. I spent a lot of time trying > > to boot from grub; conclusion - impossible. > > Xandros does not need lilo to boot, it is configured to continually > reinstall its own bootloader. > > It appears that it has a boot script command to execute /sbin/lilo > which rewrites the mbr. > > a 'chmod 644 /sbin/lilo' will prevent it from doing so. thats pretty bloody rude of it.
