-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 06:23 am, Pixel wrote: > cybercfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During an install of 20030223 Cooker, the step in the installation > > process where the bootloader installation is selected and confirmed was > > skipped. I was not asked where I wanted to install the bootloader, nor > > was I told ahead of time by the installer where it was going to be > > installed. I believe rc1 asked for this info, so this is new since rc1 > > was released. > > It depends on what you have on MBR. If it is "empty" or "dumb" it will > overwritten without asking
I thought I had cleared my disks before installing Saturday's Cooker. So the behavior is that if I have nothing else installed on my drive, LILO will be installed without prompting and any other boot parameters I want can be changed at the summary screen. Okay, I think I understand. By extension then if my installation contains other OS bootloader, like ntldr or GrUB, I will get prompted for where I want to install LILO. This seems dangerous to me. What if I use LILO, but I want to use the LILO of my other Linux install to launch 9.1, will installer understand this? Does it merely test the existence of something other than LILO on the MBR, or does it have the ability to sense OS's installed on other partitions? I suppose I should test this. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Whj0Gu5uuMFlL5MRAh57AJ9BL7BSUe7Dw7tnZo086/tia6U8yQCdGK1L jevD6UPPugXQNiLbP6Qf7Hg= =OMwY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
