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Re: LILO and EZ-Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Krikstone)
Tue Dec 1 13:30:32 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:30:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Steven Krikstone <triden3@cheney.net>
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
> 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.
Ah, didn't think of that. I'm afraid to experiment since everything works
now.. I found a program that automates the process of editing the NT
Bootloader, works like a charm.
-steve
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