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RE: LILO and EZ-Drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Krikstone)
Mon Nov 30 10:35:26 1998

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:36:09 -0600 (CST)
From: Steven Krikstone <triden3@cheney.net>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, 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 :)
> 	Jason Parmer

Well, I've never had a problem with LILO and the mbr until EZ-Drive came
along. =)

-steve



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