On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:42:35PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> This bug laments that dbootstrap presents the boot partition,
> rather than the root partition, as the location for installing
> LILO if they are different. I tried this on my machine, and LILO
> was able to boot from this setup just fine. So I think this bug
> report should be closed.
>
> That is to say, I now have the following setup:
>
> /dev/hda MBR installed here
> /dev/hda1 /boot LILO installed here
> /dev/hda2 /
> /dev/hdb1 swap
> /dev/hdb2 old /home hierarchy
>
> It boots fine.
>
> Matt
It should give the user a choice with a recommendation towards the boot
partition for newbies. (I use a commercial bootloader on a number of my
machines and never put LILO in the MBR.)
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