prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes:
 
>Andrew Brown wrote:
>> now, unless i use lilo via a floppy, the mbr just jumps right to
>> netbsd without even consulting which partition is active.

>I can't remember where I read it, but somewhere it said that lilo
>doesn't work too well with BSD (I don't know why or how lilo works)
>but os-bs does.

I think you saw some mis(dis?)-information. I've been using LILO as a
bootselector to choose between Linux and BSD for nearly two years.

Other than causing the NetBSD disklabel to mangle the MBR, it works
fine.  (And the mangling seems to be dependent on exactly how the
installation is set up.)   

Of course, both of these could depend on the version of LILO.