Re: apt-get dist-upgrade breaks lilo. Solved.

2001-11-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi I have discovered what I did wrong to cause this problem. The NT bootloader requires that the boot sector of the linux partition be an ordinary file in the NT filesystem. Each time lilo is run that bootsector changes, so the NT file has to be rewritten. That's what I forgot. I copied the new boo

apt-get dist-upgrade breaks lilo

2001-11-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi I have a lab with 7 pc's. They have been running first debian 2.0, and then 2.1, for almost two years. The machines are identical and dual boot. The master boot program is NT, and LILO is one of the options on it. There is one hard drive. NT is on the first partion, linux swap on the second,