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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] plip problem
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:17:13 +1200

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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