Actually, you can install lilo/grub/etc onto your MBR, and tell it to
boot /dev/sda1 (assuming that is where windows is installed). I've been
doing this for the last 4 years =)
NTLDR isn't actually installed on the MBR of the drive.
Paul Blazejowski wrote:
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:36 am, you wrote:
Oh wait, I probably know what this is.
Are you trying to install lilo on your boot partition?
(i.e. "boot = /dev/sda2" in lilo.conf)
You need to use the mbr (boot = /dev/sda, or whatever disk boots)
(or you could install it on your swap partition, or other non-xfs
partition). XFS needs block 0 on the disk, but if you try to install lilo
there it will overwrite xfs fs structures.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#lilowork
Yes, my LILO resides on /dev/sda2 which is the root partition with XFS
filesystem.And i've been doing that for past 2 years or so without any
problems.My MBR has NTLOADER and to avoid conflicts with it, i choose to use
lilo on my / partition.
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