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Re: Dual Booting (Part II)
>Someone asked where you've istalled lilo...this is critical. If you are
>going to boot with system commander, don't install it on the master boot
>record, or you will destroy it and have to repair it with "fdisk /mbr".
>You can usually install lilo on the linux partition, in your case
>/dev/hdb1, and ignore the warning message about not being on the first
>hard drive. Then, hopefully, you can leave the hard drive linux resides
>upon as 'slave' and not have to mess with your computer.
My instructions were specific (are are the instructions that ship with
System Commander) that you install lilo on a BOOTABLE Linux partition, NOT
on the MBR. System Commander will replace the contents of the MBR with its
own code.