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Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
So I got my stoopid linux box working. Yeah, what was the problem? Well,
see, apparently when BeOS makes a filesystem, it doesn't bother to put
it on cylinder boundaries or something. What is LILO's response to this?
Hmm, well, we could just give a warning. Or, you know, we could refuse to
do anything.
But no! LILO, mature veteran that it is, decides instead that it should
die with a fatal error and leave a totally busted loader in place.
Becaues, you know, the user will figure it out, right?
And I normally read error messages and stuff. Really I do. But LILO is
_always_ excluding about half of my listed disks for one reason or
another, so I figured "oh, an error, that just means this disk got
excluded". But no! Instead we just destroy the MBR!
I guess I will take the time to learn Grub after all. Yuck.
Luke
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe"
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