On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:50:59AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:23:35PM -0500, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: > > 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 was considering installing both grub and lilo to MBR -- but MBRs of > different disk drives -- Lilo to /dev/fd0, and grub to /dev/hda. > Then I can determine which gets used by pushing the floppy disk in or > out. My question was really whether the two conflict anywhere *else* > but the MBR. I don't think so. as I understand it, lilo essentially hardcodes the location of the kernel when you write it to the BR while grub actually reads the file systems on booting. I know that I have booted a lilo system using a grub floppy. I see no reason why the reverse wouldn't work. A
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