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Re: Boot Floppie problems.



On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:14:45AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> 1) Don't include MBR in the future (potato) to avoid problems when
> the user did not make one of their partitions bootable

The lilo package wont need mbr in the furure. I see reraly no use in it.

> 2) Allow the user to add other partitions on the drives to the
> lilo config

The question is, if this should be done from the install disk, or later in
the first base system install (by liloconfig).

> 3) Allow booting from the second hard drive

This is work in progress in liloconfig, but that script is not yet called
from the floppies, perhaps i should merge both?

> I can work on adding some of these to bootconfig.c, but it will
> take a bit of work, as I'd have to learn how the code works.

dito

Greetings
Bernd
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