My understanding is that LILO only writes the MBR of hda. The MBR is not NTFS and it is separate from any partitions. You should be able to safely replace the MBR with LILO. I beleive your concern to be if lilo can pass control to the boot of the NTFS partition. I haven't heard anyone complain about this not working.
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 12:06 pm, George Baker wrote: > > I've just installed Win XP onto my C: drive using NTFS. > > My second drive is partitioned into a D: drive with FAT > > 32 and the remaining 4 gigs has Mandrake 7.0. > > > > I've reinstalled Win 98 before but obviously the C: > > drive was then FAT 32. Using the MDK 7.0 boot CD and > > choosing upgrade I have always got LILO back. > > > > I'm a bit worried now that the C: drive is NTFS. If I > > use the MDK 7.0 boot CD will I damage something? I have > > never used NTFS before and don't want to mess things up. > > > > I unfortunately don't have a MDK boot floppy disk. > > > > Please advise. > > > > George Baker > > George, if I understand you correctly you haven't booted > into MDK yet, but have XP up and running ?. If you're > interested, I still have a MDK 7.0 CD around and will be > happy to mail the boot.img to you. Then, dd it to a > floppy, and you should be in business. > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark. > =========================================== > Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 > Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org > Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. > =========================================== -- Michael
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