I used Grub on my beta 3 install and now Norton Anti Virus no longer
works in winblows. ?? I thought it may be Grub, so went to the bash
prompt and typed lilo. No difference. Then I did an FDISK /MBR and it
makes no difference. ?? Anybody have any ideas on what is causing this
problem? My guess is that it is in the MBR or there abouts.
"Guy T. Rice" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Seth chandler wrote:
> > shoot, one more question, as i'm sure you're already aware, they fixed lilo
> > so it works past 1024 cyls anyway, so, is there a point to use grub then?
> > (assuming you incorperate the new version of lilo into mandrake) ????
>
> Absolutely. I've had systems fail to boot because essential parameters on
> the boot line needed to be changed and there's no way to do it with LILO.
> For example, if your lilo.conf has a line that says something like this:
>
> append="ide2=0xd000,0xd206,11"
>
> and you pop a new PCI card in your computer, it suddenly doesn't boot. You
> try "linux ide2=<new correct addresses>" and it STILL doesn't boot because
> the append line still gets added and overrides what you type at the boot
> prompt! You need to edit lilo.conf to boot your machine but you can't do
> a darn thing from the idiotic LILO prompt!
>
> On the other hand, if you're using GRUB, you calmly drop to the GRUB command
> line and execute and commands you need to. If a system can possibly be
> booted at all, it can be booted from the GRUB command line, WITHOUT requiring
> any specific configuration. I carry a GRUB disk around now just to be able
> to boot any machine runnning any bootable OS, regardless of what's been done
> to its normal booter/MBR.
>
> Until LILO fixes the problem of being completely unusable without having been
> preconfigured for the system in question, I'd consider it foolish to use it
> instead of GRUB...
