Re: lilo: liloconfig doesn't make the system bootable
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:14:10AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Yes, but that doesn't work in the case of a "virgin" disk, i.e. without
> any dos / whatever primary boot block, which is what looks at what the
> active partition is and then boots that. Try it with a disk that's been
> clobbered with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=100"; install debian
> on that, and watch how it fails to boot after installation.
>
> This does indeed need to be fixed.
Ok, so mbr needs to be installed. On my system I have mbr
1.0.0-6, which might be old, but it's marked essential and is in
section base. Unless it's changed I don't see how you can not have
this package.
hamish
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