[Gllug] duel booting

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Wed Jul 11 11:40:09 UTC 2001


Dave Cridland writes:

>I'd rather not dual boot at all, and for that matter if I were I'd
>probably be using NT as the other OS, but failing that, I suspect I'd be
>more inclined to use a boot disk, rather than LILO - less chance of
>losing the other OS by accident.

just install LILO onto the boot partition, rather than the MBR. Then you're
not going to lose the other OS. I don't know why the distributions all seem
to use the MBR. It's just asking for trouble, IMHO.

Tet

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