Bug#24168: Hamm: lilo installed to partition, not MBR
Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com> writes:
> A happy camper (Martin Schulze, joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE) once wrote...
> > Do you mean that LILO was installed on /dev/hda3 instead of /dev/hda?
>
> Yes, it was doing that rather than what I told it to.
>
> > May I close this bug?
>
> I'd guess I filed that at least a year ago, and so it has probably evolved
> away by now. (c:
Joey, AFAIK, the stock lilo.conf puts in place the MBR than puts the
OS loader (2nd stage boot-loader, I think is the right term) on the
partition.
For some cases this is the right thing, for others it is not.
Again, I'd lump this under the "merge all lilo bugs, make 'em all
wishlist".
The real bug is that lilo sucks, and silo sucks, and god knows what
else, the the free software world needs a better boot-loader.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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