Hi I'm interested in comments on the pros and cons of three alternative configurations:
1) Keeping the dos mbr and having lilo in a partition boot sector. Changing the bootable flags will initiate lilo etc. This seems infeasible if the partition where lilo resides starts beyond 1024 cylinders. 2) Installing the mbr package and having lilo in a partition boot sector. Is it correct that this may work for partitions beyond 1024 cyls? 3) Installing lilo in the mbr directly. As I understand lilo>=21.4 finds kernels beyond 1024 cyls in this config. I guess the fourth alternative should be using grub, but I'm yet too unfamiliar with this. Background: This discussion came up for a W2K-Debian Woody dual boot Sony Laptop with 20GB of disk. I have read that W2K disk manager can be upset by an unrecognized boot sectors and some other small problems and I'm hesitating about which way may cause the least problem in the future. Anders
