[Lvlug] The Point of Installing LILO on a Partition

[The Artist Formerly Known as Fingolfin]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Brian Reichert wrote:

> You know, that's a good question that I've always wondered myself.  I've only
> ever put LILO on the MBR.  I suppose you could use the WinNT/2k/XP boot loader
> to call on LILO then have LILO load Linux but I can't think of any reason why
> you'd want to do that.
>
> Perhaps there are other reasons or situation where it would be good?

No idea, because lilo boots windows & os2 through the chain loader.
Debian used to require you didn't put lilo on the MBR. Maybe you can ask
a debian person such as Allan why.

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