Re: some questions about lilo

[Daryl Pawluk <dpawluk@home.com>]

Christian Eckert wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Alborn <malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org>
> To: Christian Eckert <c_eckert@gmx.net>
> Cc: Debian-User-List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: some questions about lilo
>
> Thank you for the help!
>
> What I've learnt:
> The first bootloader (e.g. lilo) is only installable at the first
> harddisk,
> either in the MBR or in any boot-block of its bootable partition,
> according to the line 'boot=/dev/sda' or 'boot=/dev/sdaXX'  in
> lilo.conf.
> But:
> If I comment out the  the line 'boot=/dev/sda' or change it to
> 'boot=/dev/sda1'(supposed sda1 is a bootable partition),
> rerun lilo and reboot. Will the MBR in this case be cleared and
> ready for the installation of another bootloader ?
>
> cheers
> Christian
no. the boot record in MBR will remain the way it was last written. in 
fact you can maintain the MBR with a different lilo config file using

lilo -C /etc/lilo-mbr.conf

have you looked at grub? it's much easier to use and more flexible.

daryl