On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, BG Lim wrote: > It allows you to boot from the second disk, which is > something lilo doesn't allow you to.
As far as I know lilo v19(/sbin/lilo -V) and up allows you to boot from the the second disk. Lilo can boot linux if it is partially on the first disk. Basically all that matters is the boot sector is there, and the rest gets taken care of on the second disk. Secondly, if linux is not present on the first disk, but there is an extended partition, then the boot sector can be stored on the extended partition by the mbr or something like BOOTACTV. Lastly, lilo can boot the second disk from the mbr and is responsible for the other oses as well even if there exists no extended partitions on the first disk. ~bash ------------------------------------------------------ |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |"Why existence? Why reality? Why Unix? You decide." | ------------------------------------------------------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .