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- mbr for Debian
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-
- This package used to consist essentialy of the file /boot/mbr.b, which was
- used by the `lilo' package. Now this has changed and the lilo package uses
- the install-mbr program to install our mbr if you want it.
-
- You can also use the install-mbr by yourself, even to put our mbr on
- machines that don't have Debian or Linux at all, as our mbr is capable of
- loading other OS loaders, and being small it has some nice things, like our
- prompt allowing us to boot from different drives/partitions, or now the Y2K
- patch for some buggy BIOSes.
-
- The README file included in this directory is from the source package and it
- is included here for completeness, you don't have to follow what it says if
- you are letting liloconfig install the mbr for you, but if you want to
- install the mbr by yourself you should give it a look.
-
- If you want to see how the mbr interacts with lilo, see
- /usr/sbin/liloconfig.
-