Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Quoting Tom Lees (tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk):
> > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want
> > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use
> > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or
> > essential (can't remember if it is) should be enough.
>
> Can someone explain what the point of mbr is? Why not just install lilo
> directly to the mbr? (I always go back and do this for security reasons
> anyway: I've disabled floppy boot in the bios, why do I want an mbr
> that re-enables it?)
Well, if you install Windows 95 after installing LILO in the mbr,
LILO is gone and you'll have to get out a floppy to boot Linux. If you put
LILO in the boot sector (superblock?) instead, you just have to change
the active partition again using Windows FDISK.
Hamish
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