> disrupting the normal operation of NT during daytime. If the machines had
> LILO on the MBR, and something happened to the Linux partition, I would
> want to have a quick way to revert the machines to boot NT. Putting mbr
Y'know, you can actually put the boot.b and map on the NT partition,
instead of the Linux one. Also, the Linux _partition_ and _filesystem_
can get _way_ hosed and lilo will still work, since it stores the actual
map of sectors and reads them through the BIOS- lilo doesn't use the
partition table or the filesystem structure, so as long as the _actual
disk blocks_ with boot.b (and map, I guess, also) are still where they
were, lilo will still work. You would probably have to not only delete
the partition and replace it with something else, but also write files
that actualluy overwrote that space, before it broke. But, again, there
is nothing about LILO that requires 'map' and 'boot.b' to be on the
_linux_ partition- you could put them on a FAT partition, or actually,
_any_ mounted-under-linux partition- and LILO won't care- since it does
_not_ use the filesystem to read them at boot time.
-Tom
