Re: install-mbr vs lilo

2000-10-17 Thread Kent West
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo? the layout of a (pc) hard drive: +---+---+---+-- | partition | few | first partition | second partition | table | wasted| +---+

Re: install-mbr vs lilo

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Note: Please let me know if this comes through as HTML (and accept my > apologies) - I'm on a new email client that I'm unfamiliar with. > no html detected :-) > Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo? > the layout of a (pc) hard drive: +---+---

Re: install-mbr vs lilo

2000-09-23 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Essentially, you can use just Lilo by itself, or you can use both. If you could post contents of your /etc/lilo.conf, and a summary of your partitions (fdisk -l), it might be easier to see what the problem might be. Anyway, here's a quick comparison of the two as I understand them: Install-mb

install-mbr vs lilo

2000-09-22 Thread Kent West
Note: Please let me know if this comes through as HTML (and accept my apologies) - I'm on a new email client that I'm unfamiliar with. Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo? I've never really understood the Linux bootstrap process, and although I've read the man