Re: lilo

[Marc.Haber-lists@gmx.de (Marc Haber)]

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:33:36 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>When I installed FreeBSD I installed boot manager. So when I boot, I
>can have chices F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD. And F5 for second disk,
>which is not working yet. 
>
>Question: 
>How can I configure Lilo to boot Debian directly from HD? Will the
>installation remove the boot manger I already have? Is there any way
>that I configure my boot manager(boot easy) to boot Debian from HD
>without installing Lilo?

Well, Lilo can boot "foreign" OS's; I believe this is described in the
lilo howto.

I would recommend using XFDISK instead, it is available from
http://home.pages.de/~f.painke/ and I sincerely hope that Florian has
an English home page as well.

Greetings
Marc

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