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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

I always thought you put a lilo in the MBR which just pointed to the SMGL 
partition without prompting.

Come to think of it, wouldn't putting a non-prompting lilo in the MBR which 
boots the windows partition be functionally equivelent to using the 
standard windows MBR?

If you were switching from another distro, how would  removing lilo from 
the MBR help? You would always need a boot disk, wouldn't you?

Spencer

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:49 am, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > I'm sure it is small, but it seems like more of a rescue tool than
> > something that is needed during installation.
>
> On my box it is 17188 bytes.
>
> CD can be used also as rescue tool:
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Repair+using+a+Boot-CD
>
> If you install SMGL it proposes to install lilo to linux partition.
> What about if you convert from another distro and lilo was in MBR.
> You have to clear it. How ?
>
> - lace -
>
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