[gentoo-user] Re: Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

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Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 bs=466 will make your disk unusable as well. It should be 446 and not
 466. You may want to look here first:
 http://home.teleport.com/~brainy/fat32.htm

thanks...
I'm still dizzy from trying to follow that a while ago...

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[gentoo-user] Re: Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

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Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 No, it says to install the boot code into the first partition of the
 disk, not the mbr.  This would be useful if you use a microsoft mbr
 (fdisk /mbr, or fixboot from a recovery console), which looks for the
 'active' partition to determine which OS to load.

 You want setup (hd0)

Egad... I new that once upon a time.  Thanks

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