Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> José Alburquerque wrote:
> > As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are 
>
> Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master
> Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRUB on my
> MBR. I use Microsoft's MBR, and use the Windows XP Boot Manager to
> load GRUB from a file on my XP file system. I did that by installing
> it to a BR (not the MBR) on my disc, and ripping it to a file.
Yes, you're right about that.  GRUB can be installed in any BR (of any 
partition) and in that way grub and lilo *are not* mutually exclusive.  
But if you're planning on installing grub or lilo on the mbr then I 
think that they indeed are mutually exclusive.  (Am I right on this?)

I suppose I was too quick to generalize for the sake of simplifying but 
was wrong to do so. :-)
> [snip]
>
> > As far as I know, no matter which boot-loader is installed on your 
> > master boot record, a bootdisk overrides the boot-loader.  In fact, even 
>
> What matters is which boot loader gets loaded by the bootstrap
> in the firmware BIOS. One may have any number of boot loaders
> on disc. Only the one loaded into memory by the BIOS is the
> one executed. This does not have to come from a "bootdisk", whatever
> that may be.
Again, you're right because I over simplified. :-)  I sort of forgot 
that the loading order can be changed in the BIOS!
> [snip some good advice]
>
> Mike
Thanks for correcting!

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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque