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From: Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] lilo problems
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:24 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] lilo problems
>
> I can see two solutions:
>
> 1) [more involved, less complicated, more likely to work out of the box]
[SNIP]
> 2) [quicker to implement, more hackish, more complicated, more likely to
> fsck up whilst getting it right]
[SNIP]
>
> Other good things:
> * You won't need to install LILO in the MBR [which is a bad idea IMO
> anyway]. Instead you can install it to the boot sector of that tiny /boot
> partition [if you made it a primary], and use the active flag to select
it.
> This way if you install a M$ OS again, you don't lose LILO when it
rebuilds
> the MBR.
>
> * if you do it right, then it'll work with any bootloader you wish to try
in
> the future. (I used to use System Commander to Select between Win9x,
Linux
> [LILO] and OS/2)
Bleck - I'm having a slow day...
These two points only apply to solution 1, not to solution 2.
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