Re: Red Hat 6.1

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:13:13AM -0000, Foz wrote:
> > 
> > 	Any ideas what to do with this one.  I can't imagine that a dual 
> > boot script in /etc/lilo.conf  has had this effect on Win 98 config.
> A dual boot, hmm....they should still be separate anyway. Where 
> have you installed lilo? MBR? that is a no no for a start, 98 
> ALWAYS install to the MBR and takes over what is there on every 
> boot up. Or at least corrupts it anyway.
> 

98 doesn't do that. It's NT that does that. 95/98 and NT all install
themselves over the MBR, happily ploughing their way through whatever
used to exist there, but it's only NT that won't boot unless the
MBR contains the requisite magic number. It _is_ possible to install
lilo on the MBR of an NT machine, but not so easy. 

A.D.
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