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One disk, Linux on a primary partition

If at least one primary partition of the first hard disk is used as a Linux file system ( /, /usr, etc. but not as a swap partition), the LILO boot sector should be stored on that partition and it should be booted by the original master boot record or by a program like BOOTACTV.

In this example, the boot variable could be omitted, because the boot sector is on the root partition.



Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995