Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
- Cc: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:12:00 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000202201159.B6159@brown.edu>
- Mail-followup-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Reply-to: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 879013jh5a.fsf@erwin.complete.org>; from jgoerzen@complete.org on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:53:21PM -0600
- References: <[🔎] 2000-02-02-11-38-12+trackit+sam@debian.org> <[🔎] 87vh47k3v1.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202175255.E50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 873drby1na.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202181855.H50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 87n1pjy0qs.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202184944.K50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 87ya93h467.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202181713.A6159@brown.edu> <[🔎] 879013jh5a.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:53:21PM -0600, John Goerzen was heard to say:
> > I get the feeling you aren't reading the same emails that I am and aren't using
> > the same Debian system.
> > This thread was the first -- the *first* -- time that I even realized that the
> > default Debian install didn't put LILO on the MBR but used the mbr package
> > instead. I believe I have read a lot of documentation, and I even knew of the
>
> You did notice that the boot floppy programs ask you about this,
> right?
It's been a while since I installed my Debian system, but I only remember it
asking whether LILO should go on the MBR -- it didn't explain what it was doing
in the non-MBR case (I assumed it just flagged the LILO partition as bootable
and let the DOS MBR handle it, which sounds dumb now, but there you are :) )
Daniel
--
There is something in the pang of change
More than the heart can bear,
Unhappiness remembering happiness.
-- Euripides
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