From: Gerrit Lammert (lammert@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 11:00:43 CEST
Hi!
> > > 9) muLinux asks me about boot partition, it says if I want to use
lilo,
> > and I
> > > do, that the boot partition should be /dev/null. So I type /dev/null
and
> > > press enter.
> > > # Note: this says "if it does'nt has " it should read "if it doesn't
have"
> >
> > /dev/null is the nirvana, it is used to delete things (by sending them
to
> > dev/null), so it is not a good idea, installing lilo into it ;-)
> > you have to enter /dev/hda1 in your case!
>
> Well the /dev/hda1 isn't the optimal solution, because if you have
> m$-dos installed on hda1 then when you install lilo to hda1, you
> can't boot dos (it just loads lilo again, and again and again......
Agreed, but in his case hda1 was the (only) linux-native-partition, so there
should be no problem...
...gerrit
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