RE: How does LILO work...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Z Maze [mailto:dmaze@debian.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:42 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How does LILO work...
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>
> I believe 'apt-get install lilo' won't actually do anything until you
> run 'lilo' as root. You might consider installing GRUB instead,
> though; the initial installation is IME a little trickier, but you
> never need to reinstall it again, since the bootloader has some
> filesystem support.
Oh, okay. If the only advantage to GRUB is not having to re-run it after a kernel upgrade, I don't mind that much -- I'm really worried about accidentally writing over my Windows disk (/dev/sda), so I don't want to mess with it. I don't have a backup of what's on it, and can't make a backup at this time (way too much legacy junk).
I'll apt-get install lilo and then run it as root. Thanks David.
Erik
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