On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Eran Levy wrote:
>
> No No. Im sorry. From my experience, knowledge and testings, I have got this:
> When I have installed NT loader after installing Linux, Linux showed up in
> the menu and I only had to choose it from the menu and press ENTER. Im not
> telling this because "I heard it from...". I tested this and thats what I
> have got.
> Again, Its not regarding to other windows versions 95/98. They overwrite
> your MBR and LILO is gone after installing them so I cant recommend this.
Why does everyone seem to always install LILO in the MBR? Personally I
never do. I always install LILO in the "superblock of the root
partition", eg. boot = /dev/hda2. If I understand correctly, there is a
boot record for the entire disk (the MBR) and also a boot record for each
partition. Install LILO in your linux root partition and then you can let
windows/dos have the MBR the way it wants to.. all you have to do after
you install windows (if you installed linux first) is go into fdisk and
set your linux root partition boot flag (and remove it from any other
partition). I've never had any problems with this method. Comments?
-Cedar
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