LILO
Jerry Feldman
gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net
Sun Aug 29 10:32:49 EDT 1999
I just installed LILO in the MBR to use as my boot manager rather than
System Commander. After I did this, I found that my disk types got changed
in the partition table.
/dev/hda4, Linux native was made bootable.
/dev/hda1 (WINDOZ) was changed to non-bootable, type 1c (unknown).
The result was that I was unable to boot into Windows from LILO. I
corrected this by running the Linux fdisk utility. I also found that the 2
additional drives were set up as hidden.
I was unaware that LILO would make these changes. I would expect an MS
product to do this.
Once I booted successfully into Windoz, system commander reinstalled
itself, so I rebooted into Linux (had to use floppy), turned commander off,
ran /sbin/lilo, and found my partitions changed again. This is just a minor
annoyance, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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