[Gllug] Init not Found

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Jan 10 13:21:12 UTC 2002


On 1/10/02, 12:55:47 PM, "Jackson, Harry" <HJackson at colt-telecom.com> wrote 
regarding RE: [Gllug] Init not Found:

> It is dual boot at the moment but on a whim I installed GRUB so I am on 
new
> territory. I thought if you run fdisk /mbr from DOS that you wiped the 
boot
> partition and would need a disk to get back into Linux.

Not if you install Lilo to a partition and mark that partition as 
bootable (with fdisk or whatever).  If you do that the BIOS loads Lilo 
from the partition.

-- 

Bruce

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