From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Putting Lilo in MBR Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:24:12 GMT
What does LILO do when you install it in the MBR of your hard disk ?
Does it change the active partition to the partition containing the
kernel / partition you boot ?
'Cause I played with it last night, and i could boot DOS, Linux and
SCO Open Desktop fine, but when i put it in Linux's boot sector and
changed the active partn. to linux, ODT wouldn't boot,
presumably because its boot program seems to assume that ODT is in
the active partition, and so it couldn't find the boot program to
run...8-(
So if I install LILO in the MBR will it change the active partition to
ODT's if i "want" to boot ODT (not likely - it's dad's, not mine 8-)
instead of Linux (now there's an impossible occurrence 8-) ?
Or shall I just stick with BOOTLIN until I can convince Dad to turf
ODT ;-) ?
Cos !
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