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

Spencer Ogden said:
> If I remember correctly this has always been a 'feature'. It made sense
> when Sorcery was usually the second distro on a box, but now that we are
>  releasing I think it is a little much to expect users to know they have
> to  put a loader in the MBR seperate from the installation process, no
> one  else does it that way...
>
> Spencer
>
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:19 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> -One of Four
>> a.k.a. sandalle

Perhaps we should then give more info on the installer?  Perhaps in the
menu where you can Optionally Re-configure LILO, and inform the user that
if they want SMGL to install the boot loader for the entire system, change
boot to use /disc instead of /partx, otherwise, leave as is and modify
their normal boot loader (Norton Commander, Windows, GRUB, etc.)

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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