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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.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>




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