Re: LILO

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Dietrich Clauss (dc2@inf.tu-dresden.de):
> 
> > I tried to change boot=hda3 to hda4
> 
> Did you move the 'bootable' flag from hda3 to 4, too? 
> Otherwise, the MBR tries to start your old LILO on hda3.
> 
> You can also install LILO in the MBR using
> boot=hda
> 
> that makes the 'bootable' flag obsolete.

Oh, I assumed he had a Micros**t OS as well (all that talk of C:
and D:), which would need the bootable flag itself to work at all.

(But I answered privately, too.)

Cheers,

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