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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Mark Andrews said:
>>> Good job on the ISO!  Went flawlessly for me, I can even use XFS now!
>>>  One slight problem with LILO, though, it still defaults to a
>>> partition for boot, rather than a disk.  Is this a bug (perhaps with
>>> the lilo spell in my section), or perhaps a "feature" so that LILO
>>> won't overwrite a boot loader the user may already have?
>
> AC> I wasn't really aware that it was a 'problem' per se... it could
> probably be AC> changed if the consensus was to do so.  Perhaps a bug
> should be filed?
>
> SourceMage was the third distro (RH & Knoppix being the others) to go
> onto my development machine. It's a single drive with multiple
> partitions and I'd have been most upset if the install had
> trashed my existing grub bootloader.
>
> I vote for feature ;-)
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Mark                            mailto:msasgl AT msa-enterprises.com

And that's exactly what I was thining it was setup that way for.  :) 
We'll leave it as is, then, so people will have to _knowingly_ change it
to overwrite their MBR.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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