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Re: LILO and EZ-Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 14:43:48 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:25:24 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Jason Parmer (jasonp)" wrote:
> I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd sooner die then let LILO touch my
> MBR... I've had *way* too many bad experiances with LILO messing up my MBR..
> I find it MUCH safer to let it have the boot sector of the linux root
> partition.. easier to keep track of, easier to multiboot, and it's never
> munched the drive so bad I couldn't access any of my drives. Just my
> opinion, of course :)
That's funny. I always put LILO in the MBR and have never gotten stuck.
Anyway it's easy to remove LILO from the MBR with the simple DOS
command fdisk /mbr which is not documented in the common
places, like fdisk /?
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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