LILO

[gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

I just installed LILO in the MBR to use as my boot manager rather than 
System Commander. After I did this, I found that my disk types got changed 
in the partition table.
/dev/hda4, Linux native was made bootable.
/dev/hda1 (WINDOZ) was changed to non-bootable, type 1c (unknown). 

The result was that I was unable to boot into Windows from LILO. I 
corrected this by running the Linux fdisk utility. I also found that the 2 
additional drives were set up as hidden.

I was unaware that LILO would make these changes. I would expect an MS 
product to do this.

Once I booted successfully into Windoz, system commander reinstalled 
itself, so I rebooted into Linux (had to use floppy), turned commander off, 
ran /sbin/lilo, and found my partitions changed again. This is just a minor 
annoyance,  but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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