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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Putting Lilo in MBR
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:24:12 GMT
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- 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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- Andrew J. Cosgriff ! ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
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