On Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 10:21:25AM +0100, Han wrote: > Following irc sometime and a often reoccuring theme is that windows > removes lilo and the newbs can't get linux back again. There is a very > easy sollution to this problem. I have been using it for quite some > time now and It allways works and the recovery is allways > straightforward. Much easier than any conventional solution. > > 1) Install lilo on the linux partition. > > 2) Install GAG as the bootmanager. > > Gag is : GPL, braindead-easy, good looking, easy to recover. > > I think it would be a good idea if we install Mandrake like that. Much > more newbie friendly.
Why not just tell people to make boot floppies like they're supposed to? =) Then it's just: boot from floppy as root run "/sbin/lilo -v" viola, next reboot you're fine. I don't see the point of another boot manager. We already have one. -- vdanen (at) mandrakesoft.com, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 10 days 22 hours 17 minutes.
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