On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:25:51AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Nate Duehr said:
> > 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.)
>
> It does give the user a choice, between the MBR of the first drive
> on the boot partition bus (e.g., hda or sda) and the boot
> partition (e.g., hda1 in my case). The description, however, is
> inaccurate, in that it refers to the "root partition's boot
> sector" instead of the "boot partition's boot sector".
>
> The recommendation given is to install LILO into the MBR, which
> makes sense for new users.
>
> If the user chooses not to install LILO on the MBR, it then asks
> if they would like to install a loader in the MBR. This is by no
> means required, however.
>
> So I think the description should be fixed and this bug marked as
> fixed (and closed on the next upload).
Sorry, my misunderstanding. I thought the choices had changed somehow
and was defending them. :-)
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