Re: tlug: Lilo hosed

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Howard Abbey wrote:

> Scott Stone wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Howard R. Abbey wrote:
> > >   I really find
> > > it hard to believe / scary that an install would mess with the mbr
> > > of hda.
> > 
> > I think that when the installer did its fdisk, it reset the heads
> > parameter on the drive, and that's what broke LILO...
> 
> Is there any way to stop this from happening?  (Hmm.. maybe next 
> time I install a new distribution I'd better unplug my boot 
> drive.  I know THAT will work.)  I would have hoped that unless you
> changed partitions on the drive, or installed LILO to it, that it
> wouldn't be touched.

yeah, don't have the installer run fdisk, and it won't happen.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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