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lilo on MBR?? (was: Re: The darnest thing...)
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Oded Arbel wrote:
> the installation was a brease, and everything went fine (except for some
> problems with the RH6 installed Font Server {xfs} - did anyone had
> problems with it ? I'll later check what's happening there and report
> back..) and I installed LILO in the MBR.
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?
guy