Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:17:09PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR.
A slight correction: Floppies do not have MBRs on them. They are
a single volume, and have only a BR on them.
Do I conclude that it's not possible to partition a floppy? Is that
what you mean by "a single volume"?
It is, indeed.
To elaborate: It is not possible to partition a floppy using
the standard formats used today. CP/M *did* allow one to
partition floppies. I'm not claiming that it is physically
impossible. I'm saying it's not possible using the FAT
file system used today on floppies. Any given floppy can only have
one file system on it using this format.
Anyway, lilo wrote a perfectly good BR, then,
Ok.
Mike
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