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Matrix Mole wrote:
>
> lilo is a boot manager similar to the manager offered by 
> winnt and partition magic (and others). It sits on the MBR 
> of your primary HD. 

That is one way of using lilo.  It can also sit at the beginning
of a Linux partition (that's the default for the BasicLinux lilo 
package).

> I've heard that lilo is very confusion to setup and ahve operate 
> properly on a computer. 

Yes, loadlin is simpler and more forgiving of mistakes.

Cheers,
Steven







I would assume that there is a lilo HOWTO
> somewhere in tldp.org that you could peruse.
> 
> > I cannot imagine why this sort of problem would be intermittent.
> 
> Again, it may have something to do with PnP BIOS settings needing to be
> turned off. Other than that, I have no clue as to why the problem exists
> at all.
> 
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