Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:03:17 +0100
From: Rudo Thomas <rudo@matfyz.cz>
To: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
Subject: Re: Catch 22
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> Also you can use a MBR lilo that only boots one or more partitions, then
> have Lilo installed on each partition to select a specific kernel related
> to that particular partition. This way you no longer have to update a
> single point of failure - only update the lilo configuration on a specific
> partition when changes are needed.
> 
> You avoid altering the MBR and the other partition.

I think the original poster meant one partition. In 2.4 it shows up as
/dev/hda, in 2.6 as /dev/hde.

Rudo.
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