Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition
Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> writes:
> It does give the user a choice, between the MBR of the first drive
> on the boot partition bus (e.g., hda or sda) and the boot
> partition (e.g., hda1 in my case). The description, however, is
> inaccurate, in that it refers to the "root partition's boot
> sector" instead of the "boot partition's boot sector".
>
> The recommendation given is to install LILO into the MBR, which
> makes sense for new users.
>
> If the user chooses not to install LILO on the MBR, it then asks
> if they would like to install a loader in the MBR. This is by no
> means required, however.
>
> So I think the description should be fixed and this bug marked as
> fixed (and closed on the next upload).
Ok, sounds great. I hope it really does fix the problem. I was
thinking we still had an issue with lilo getting fudged up when we had
a /boot partition. I guess not, and that's good to hear.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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