Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:
>
> > in this case, if mbr is already diverting towards some other bootable
> > partition, won't the system go to boot from there leaving lilo
> > untouched, inspite of active partition?
> >
> No, It is the active partition which is booted by default (at
> least on my BIOS). I earlier had win98/win2k installed on mbr and had the
> first linux partition active. And it loaded LILO from where I used to
> divert to dos if needed. Of course the active partition will boot only if
> it is one of the primary ones and not the extended. (correct me)
Hi ajay,
well, my second linux-native as well as linux-swap are in logical
partitions in an extended parition, and it is successfully booting.
so there. for that matter, my lilo is in mbr, if that is doing the
trick.
regards.
-vulcan
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