[Gllug] Triple booting Linux/Win98/Win2000

[Paul Brazier]

> >Install Linux last definitely so you can put Lilo on the master boot
> >record (MBR) without Windows overwriting it.
> 
> Which is, of course, why installing into the MBR is a bad idea. Using
> the first sector of the boot partition instead is a much 
> better option,
> and I don't understand why distributions don't do it by default. That
> has the advantages of not being overwritten when installing 
> another OS,

Isn't all the information stored in /etc/lilo.conf though, so if this
happens you can just boot into Linux with a rescue disk and run
/sbin/lilo to restore it?

> plus you don't screw up the drive when you lose your Linux partition
> and LILO can't boot its second stage loader. The latter 
> obviously isn't
> a problem with Grub, which I'd recommend over LILO now 
> anyway. Not only
> is it more user friendly, it's easier to configure, and it 
> works better
> over serial consoles (for me, at least).

I'd like to try Grub but I'm a bit worried about fscking up my setup.
Why is Lilo still so popular if Grub is superior - just resistance to
change and the fact that most documentation assumes you have lilo?

Paul.


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