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



At this (Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:15:43AM +0300) day, guy keren wrote:
| 
| now, this always bugs me - why do people install LILO on the MBR? as far
| as i see, installing it on the same partition containing linux is much
| safer - you avoid the problems of other OSes overwriting the MBR and thus
| removing LILO, and in the worst case, you simply use the partition
| handling program of the other system (e.g. fdisk) to set linux to be the
| active partition. 
| 
| now, could anyone tell me what is wrong with my reasoning, or simply why
| is it better, in your opinion, to install LILO on the MBR?
| 

I'v allways installed LILO one the MBR. It simply looked resnoble to me, why ?
because of its simplisity. I know that when i boot, it WILL load the designated OS,
i know i can control it from linux (and from dos at list i can remove it), Since
i think linux can control my hardware *THE BEST* why give this crutial section to some other OS/util.
beside it gives me a _bit_ security (password=...) and bit hacking abilities (things like root=... ether=... etc.).
But, installing Lilo there is not enought.  One _MUST_ install it on a floopy too, 
or at list a karnel image there.  thats because of other OSs  ability to over-write the MBR.

-- 
Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il>