Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>
- 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: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
- Date: 02 Feb 2000 21:05:19 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87ya939ea8.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
- Reply-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: Daniel Burrows's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:12:00 -0500"
- 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> <[🔎] 20000202201159.B6159@brown.edu>
Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> writes:
> 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 :) )
Likewise for me, but as I recall the question was whether or not it
should install mbr there, not whether or not it should put lilo there.
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