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Re: LILO problem.



On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:40:31PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is only _one_ boot sector for the whole harddisk (e. g. hda). 
> So you have the following options:

> 1. Install lilo in the harddisk's MBR. It can boot windoze as well, as
>    Paul explained.

Uh, you *can* install LILO into the parition rather than the MBR- but if you
do, you need to bootstrap into the partition. So IMHO you might as well put
it in the MBR, as you recommend.

SRH
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