Re: lilo again
Well, I don't have that book but Lilo is intended to be used either way
- user's choice. I use it both ways on different machines without
problems. I don't know why Debian is singled out in the book as
something of a special case. Lilo is Lilo - it works the same on all
distributions.
Unless it has something to do specifically with configuring Lilo during
the Debian installation - as opposed to any other time. It's been a
while since I actually installed Debian from scratch so I may be
forgetting....
Tom
Rik Burt wrote:
>
> If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux"
>
> This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book:
>
> ... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a
> drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named
> partition. (Debian users should always do this.) ...
>
> Then from the section Using LILO as a Secondary Boot Loader:
>
> ... This restriction applies to the Debian distribution however, where the
> MBR can boot an operating system from a boot sector in an extended (but not
> logical) partition. In order to boot Linux this way, th Linux root
> partition should be marked as active in the partition table. ....
>
> I have been using LILO in the usual way with Debian so I just don't
> understand why LILO should be used as a secondary boot loader.
>
> These excerpts ar from "Running LINUX" 3rd edition by Matt Welsh, Matthias
> Kalle Dalheimer and Lar Kaufman
>
> Rik
>
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