On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:23:53AM +1200, Rik Tindall wrote: > >>But beware. Xandros wants its own LILO in order to boot. - In using it, > >>forget about GRUB! > > > >Nick Rout wrote > >Why does it need lilo to boot? > > > If I knew that, I could well still be using it. But Xandros made itself > a boot floppy as a second option - no grub. I spent a lot of time trying > to boot from grub; conclusion - impossible.
Xandros does not need lilo to boot, it is configured to continually reinstall its own bootloader. It appears that it has a boot script command to execute /sbin/lilo which rewrites the mbr. a 'chmod 644 /sbin/lilo' will prevent it from doing so. --- keith.
