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[Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:30 pm, John T Copeland wrote:
> I don't agree with placing lilo in the MBR.  I never do.  I have a
> primary booter, BootMagic from Power Quest in the MBR.  lilo has
> problems booting multiple Linux partitions(it seems to want all the
> kernels in one partition, /boot, and the first one it sees.  maybe a
> bug).  Also, boot PC-DOS, Win2K, and even RedHat.
>
> If one only uses Linux, and only one partition of Linux, lilo in the MBR
> is AOK.
>
> Whatever we do, we should do a very good job of explaining what is going
> on with lilo and booting during the install.  This is a very confusing
> issue with many people, especially newbies.  If one understands lilo,
> linux, etc and is experienced, lilo presents no problems.
>
> JohnC
>
> Adam Clark wrote:
> >Hey Wyatt,
> >
> > [ S N I P ]


I, too, never put LILO in the MBR, because I, too, use a different boot 
loader.  If this can be changed around easily enough, why can't we (the 
general all of us we, not the you and I we :^)) just give people the option 
of choosing between MBR and /boot, especially of we are going to look at 
giving people the option of choosing between LILO and GRUB.


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