dual boot with lilo
I have a laptop that I am trying to dual boot.
I have the following partitions shown with qtparted
under a Knoppix boot:
01 /dev/hda1 ntfs active 20GB
02 /dev/hda2 fat32 2GB
03 /dev/hda3 extended 33GB
04 /dev/hda5 linux-swap 1GB
05 /dev/hda6 ext2 15MB // for /boot
06 /dev/hda7 ext2 33GB // for /
Will lilo as installed by Debian Woody 3.0r1 be capable
of finding /boot where it is shown above?
I read that lilo need LBA support to get beyond the 1024
sector. Does lilo on Woody support LBA?
I read that grub supports LBA out of the box. I thought
about installing woody without a boot loader and
hand installing grub. I am not so sure about that
possibility.
The ntfs OS is booting just fine (still) and I'd like
it to stay that way if possible. I've done my
backups just in case.
Woody is installed but I bailed out of the install
where it asks about making the system bootable. I am
not opposed to reinstalling and choosing lilo in the MBR
if that's right thing to do here.
I could really use some pointers on how to proceed.
Thanks,
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Michael Mueller
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