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Sometime Today, Raj Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
> I had a similar problem. I have WinNT installed and
> LILO got installed on top of NT loader. It may sound
> wiered but it is true. So when I selected "dos" from
Nope, it's not weird. NT Loader isn't exactly installed on the MBR, but
on the active partition (the active partition). What NT/Win/DOS does when
you partition a hard-disk and make a partition active, is add a simple 3
byte jump instruction into the MBR that tells the system to jump to the
address of the boot sector on the active partition.
> LILO, NT loader would get activated. The problem came
Lilo is small enough to fit on the MBR, and has its data tables stored
elsewhere (boot.b I think). When you select an entry from there, it
checks which address to jump to, and does that.
> when I wanted to remove LILO from the MBR and put it
> on the first sector of the Linux partition. When I did
> /sbin/lilo -u the LILO did not completely go off and
> the booting got stuck at LI-. The only option that I
Can't understand why this happened. Maybe had to do with the disk being
too big or lilo not being able to find the old map file.
> had was to re-install lilo on the MBR. But recently I
> tried doing fdisk/mbr from DOS promt, the LI- got
fdisk/mbr will just rewrite the MBR with the original jmp instruction that
points to the active partition.
> removed and surprisingly the NT Loader was still
Still surprised?
> intact in the MBR. BTW, fdisk/mbr was suggested by
Not in the MBR, but the boot sector of the active partition.
Philip
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On a clear disk you can seek forever.
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