On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:14:09PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
> lilo can't possibly fit into the mbr, not ever, not never, not in a month
> of sundays....
> It won't even fit in the extra space that (is probably) lurking in the pbr.
> My guess is that, like the second part of the interactive BSD loader it
> is loaded from filestore using a canned list of sector numbers.
> 
> All the mbr code will do is to load the pbr code (1 sector) of the active
> partition then jump to it.

No, you can "install lilo in the MBR", that it install in the MBR the code
that will load lilo from disk.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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