[101962] in RedHat Linux List
Re: LILO and EZ-Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 30 15:26:44 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:11:15 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Steven Krikstone wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Damond Walker wrote:
>
> > >
> > >Did RedHat put LILO in the MBR of the first drive (most common place)
> > >or in the boot sector of the Linux root partition (alternate place)?
> > >Or, do you boot Linux from diskette?
> > >
> >
> >
> > In the MBR...
>
> Hmmmm. When I used lilo, it overwrote Ez-Drive. I then went and use the
> EZ-Drive restore track 0 feature; that overwrote lilo. The way my system
> is now is: NT, Win95, and Linux all listed in the NT Boot loader. Lilo
> is written to the root linux partition, and EZ-Drive loads the NT Boot
> loader. To me, this seemed like the only way with the setup I had. (could
> be wrong)
Or install LILO in the bootable partition. Much easier to maintain than
the NT boot loader.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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