Craig McPherson wrote:
>
> 1. You gain nothing by doing so. Logic dictates that if an action is not
> helpful in any manner whatsoever, and carries a risk of harm or hardship,
> then that action shouldn't be undertaken.
What about convenience on booting Linux ? You didn't answer my question
where I asked if I would have to use a boot disk to boot Linux if I
didn't install Lilo in the MBR.
> 2. The volatility of the MBR. Ever installed Windows? Overwrites the MBR.
> In fact, this is one of the only smart things Microsoft has ever done:
> it overwrites the MBR with the PROPER code that should be there, to the
> consternation of people who have tampered with something they shouldn't have.
Is this a volatility of the MBR or an assumption by Windows that the
user is only running it ?? I don't think it's a volatity of the MBR, the
MBR is doing nothing, Windows is the one who wrote on it.
> 3. The MBR isn't the proper place for LILO. The MBR already contains the
> only bootloader it needs: it checks your partition table, and passes control
> to the boot sector of the partition marked as active. *THAT* is where LILO
> (or any other boot loader) should be.
What if I want to dual boot between windows and Linux ? Will I need to
mark my active partion for everytime I want to change the OS I am
running ? If it is this way, than it IS cumbersome, and there's an
advantage of putting LILO in the mbr.
> 5. What if LILO breaks? It does break. Often. I've seen it. Now, imagine
> that LILO is living in the MBR when it breaks. This will be left as an
> exercise to the reader.
I don't doubt it breaks, it just never broke with me in two years. When
it breaks, boot Linux or windows from a floppy and rewrite it. Not too
hard I think.
Thanks,
Roberto Mello
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