Bruce Perens writes, on debian-user: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Is it possible to add lilo setup during the installation or someone > > correct me if I am wrong. > > This is an open issue. The problem is that the user may have another operating > system installed on a different disk partition. To accomodate this sort of > installation, we should put the LILO boot block in the boot record of the > partition that we've installed Debian in, not on the master boot record. We > should then install a "partition boot manager" on the main boot block, unless > the user says they already have a partition boot manager installed. > > The problem is that I don't have a partition boot manager that we can > distribute with Debian. It can't be shareware, and we must be allowed to sell > it because it is going on CD-ROM. There are several partition boot managers > floating around in net-land, and I haven't had time to research if one of them > fits our requirements. You are invited to assist in this task!
I asked Neil about this problem a little while ago, and he wrote such an MBR. Neil, I copied `mbr.tgz' and `mbr' from CUS into chiark's anon-ftp area. Bruce: perhaps you'd like to take a look at it ? chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk:/users/ian/mbr*. Ian.
