Christian Eckert wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian-User-List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: some questions about lilo
Thank you for the help!
What I've learnt:
The first bootloader (e.g. lilo) is only installable at the first
harddisk,
either in the MBR or in any boot-block of its bootable partition,
according to the line 'boot=/dev/sda' or 'boot=/dev/sdaXX' in
lilo.conf.
But:
If I comment out the the line 'boot=/dev/sda' or change it to
'boot=/dev/sda1'(supposed sda1 is a bootable partition),
rerun lilo and reboot. Will the MBR in this case be cleared and
ready for the installation of another bootloader ?
cheers
Christian
no. the boot record in MBR will remain the way it was last written. in
fact you can maintain the MBR with a different lilo config file using
lilo -C /etc/lilo-mbr.conf
have you looked at grub? it's much easier to use and more flexible.
daryl
