Master boot record editing

[Jim W]

I thought I read somewhere that SuSE has a problem with LILO and tge MBR.
Dont they suggest using a floppy for LILO with 6.3?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucas Vogel <lucas7@home.com>
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: Master boot record editing


>Well, here's the weird thing-even with Suse set up(more or less) on that
>partition my MBR never changed at all. When I formatted the COL
>partition it left the MBR information unchanged, as did the Suse
>install. Before I rebooted from Suse after the install I happened to
>notice that there was no lilo.conf file in my /etc directory, which may
>be a clue as to why it hasn't changed. Maybe I should try again?
>
>Arthur Wagner wrote:
>>
>> We have a pattern here. My problem is with SuSE 6.3 also.
>> I wonder if SuSE modified somthing in or around LILO ?
>> Sorry about the M$ thing. Do you have a rescue disk for SuSE?
>> You might be able to at least copy bzImage to a floppy or better
>> yet fix lilo from a rescue disk. I'll check SuSE's web site to see
>> If I can find a rescue disk image.
>> There is a disk edit capability in dos, thru the debug program. But
>> I don't know if it's still around under Windoze ???
>> Art
>>
>> Lucas Vogel wrote:
>>
>> > Too bad M$ doesn't have man :) (I can't get to Suse)
>> >
>> > Arthur Wagner wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Lucas Vogel wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I had COL 2.2 on my hda5 partition. I have erased that and
installed
>> > > > Suse 6.3 on hdb6 or 7. I need to make those changes so that it will
>> > > > reflect the new changes.
>> > > >
>> > > > Jim W wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > whatcha wanna do with the MBR, Lucas?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > > From: Lucas Vogel <lucas7@home.com>
>> > > > > To: newPLUG <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>> > > > > Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 6:23 PM
>> > > > > Subject: Master boot record editing
>> > > > >
>> > > > > >Can anyone tell me how to go about editing this?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >Thnx
>> > > > > >--
>> > > > > >Lucas Vogel
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