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Re: putting lilo on the mbr, help please



On Jun 23, Ed Urenda wrote
> Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated:
> 
> I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the 
> rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the 
> system.
> 
> The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_table option was successful, 
> but when I add a section for win95 in lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo it 
> complains that lilo must reside on the mbr (i assume that win95 has 
> taken 
> the mbr).  How can I put lilo back on the mbr?
> 

You need to use the 'boot' command, I believe. Something like "boot = /dev/hda"
in the global section of your lilo.conf. But please doublecheck with the
lilo manual before adding that to your lilo.conf.

  Christian

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