At 12:54 26/06/01 +0300, you wrote:
>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?
This is good solution when you have something like NT loader or System
Commander that you have installed them first and then installed Linux. When
you do this its will not overwrite your MBR and this will let you still use
your NT loader or System commander without any probs with one more choice
there: "Linux" :)
>-Cedar
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Regards,
Eran Levy.
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