Well, I don't have that book but Lilo is intended to be used either way - user's choice. I use it both ways on different machines without problems. I don't know why Debian is singled out in the book as something of a special case. Lilo is Lilo - it works the same on all distributions.
Unless it has something to do specifically with configuring Lilo during the Debian installation - as opposed to any other time. It's been a while since I actually installed Debian from scratch so I may be forgetting.... Tom Rik Burt wrote: > > If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux" > > This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book: > > ... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a > drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named > partition. (Debian users should always do this.) ... > > Then from the section Using LILO as a Secondary Boot Loader: > > ... This restriction applies to the Debian distribution however, where the > MBR can boot an operating system from a boot sector in an extended (but not > logical) partition. In order to boot Linux this way, th Linux root > partition should be marked as active in the partition table. .... > > I have been using LILO in the usual way with Debian so I just don't > understand why LILO should be used as a secondary boot loader. > > These excerpts ar from "Running LINUX" 3rd edition by Matt Welsh, Matthias > Kalle Dalheimer and Lar Kaufman > > Rik >
