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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 9 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I will try lilo with our test linux drive that has BL2 on it.  
> 
> The lilo package from BL1 does not work on BL2 (although it
> does work on BL3).

I would use the lilo.tgz from Slackware 7.1 for this.
 
> > Is it easy to remove lilo after putting it on, 
> 
> That depends. 
> 
> > I think it installs something to the master boot record.
> 
> FDISK /MBR (from DOS) should fix that.

Would it also mess up whatever I had on the computer before that?  
We did this once to remove an antivirus program from MBR.  I don't have 
any boot managers installed.  Isn't MBR used to keep track of what files 
are on there already?  

I will experiment on our 200MB test linux drive, which we can redo and 
start over.

Today a programming friend who likes to think about our little hardware
problems (and solved a printer problem by suggesting a shorter cable which
delivered higher voltage when one printer would not work on the second
printer port of one computer otherwise) said that DR-DOS and MS-DOS 6.22
put a different FAT12 file structure on the floppy disk than do Win9x
DOS'es and this might explain why we can boot linux from a floppy disk
formatted with Win9x but sometimes not with DR-DOS.  I am thinking of
using these intermittent computers and keeping zimage on a Win9x floppy
disk for when it won't boot from hard drive.

There was something about linux getting confused by hitting the wrong 
numbers and refusing to boot for security reasons.

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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