[plug] Another LILO issue, any ideas.

[bk]

On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 06:24:56PM +0800, draper at upnaway.com wrote:
> For my sins I am called upon to run many strange and unusual programs under
> my multi-booted box (95,98, NT, RH5.2). Many of the utilities i work with
> aren't all that careful about preserving non-standard (ie non Microsoft
> )boot sectors, thus LILO often disapears into the ether. 
> 
> Apart from having a boot floppy with a current LILO file, is there another
> way to preserve/and or rewrite the MBR?

Write LILO to the root linux partition and make the linux partition
contain the active boot flag. If you reinstall any MS OS, you have to
change back the active boot flag.

-David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).