RE: Red Hat 6.1

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Windows/dos doesn't care where the partition is as long as it's set active. 
The mbr is outside the partition scheme entirely and thus unaffected by how 
the disk is carved up.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Bob Ham [SMTP:u9rah [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk]
Sent:	Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:07 PM
To:	sheflug@vuw.ac.nz
Subject:	Re: Red Hat 6.1

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Alastair Donlon wrote:

> 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.
> >

I was under the impression that the MBR had nothing to do with Windows
(NT or 9x.)  From what I do understand, any M$ bootable partition must
be the first partition on the hard disk and that's it.  I'm sure I've
had lilo sat on the MBR with NT on the same machine (tho I'm not 100% on
that.)

Bob

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