On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or > > essential (can't remember if it is) should be enough. > > Can someone explain what the point of mbr is? Why not just install lilo > directly to the mbr? (I always go back and do this for security reasons > anyway: I've disabled floppy boot in the bios, why do I want an mbr > that re-enables it?)
Well, if you install Windows 95 after installing LILO in the mbr, LILO is gone and you'll have to get out a floppy to boot Linux. If you put LILO in the boot sector (superblock?) instead, you just have to change the active partition again using Windows FDISK. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
