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Re: lilo on MBR?? (was: Re: The darnest thing...)



On Wed, 12 May 1999, guy keren wrote:

gk>now, this always bugs me - why do people install LILO on the MBR? as far
gk>as i see, installing it on the same partition containing linux is much
gk>safer - you avoid the problems of other OSes overwriting the MBR and thus
gk>removing LILO, and in the worst case, you simply use the partition
gk>handling program of the other system (e.g. fdisk) to set linux to be the
gk>active partition.
gk>
gk>now, could anyone tell me what is wrong with my reasoning, or simply why
gk>is it better, in your opinion, to install LILO on the MBR?
	The best way to install LILO in boot sector of linux partition and
in MBR, or if you like menus install chos in mbr.

	If you run linux, you need not any other OS. therefore you need
lilo in MBR :)

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