Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can install lilo to /dev/hda1 (or other partition) instead of /dev/hda
> and then a 'standard' DOS MBR will happily boot lilo if the lilo partition
> is marked active. (Tried and tested). At the moment, DrakX will always
> overwrite a DOS MBR.
This is like install linux and forget, or install windows and forget.
> You might also want to leave the MBR intact if you were auto-installing a
> dual-boot machine and wanted to use the pre-existing boot loader as the
> "top-level" boot loader: e.g. if you wanted Linux to appear as an option
> on NT's boot menu by adding an entry to boot.ini. (Yes, I know that you'd
> have to add some code manually to the postInstall to write the correct
> entry into boot.ini).
Not possible generally as NT partition has to be formatted fat32.
Fran�ois.