lilo and ntfs

[White, Matt]

Lilo does work with NTFS; I had this working with Debian 2.2 and tested it
with 3.0r0.

You definitely want to install XP before Linux; let Lilo right a new MBR.

Matt


> Hi all. Up to now I have thought that Lilo never supported NTFS, and
> that in  order to be able to boot something like winnt/xp you needed
> Grub or some other  boot loader. I was recently checking out the Linux
> and WINNT Howto, and I did  realize that some version of Lilo did in
> fact have NTFS support. The author of  that howto had stated that he was
> running winnt with an NTFS partition and  having Lilo boot the system.
> Does the version of Lilo that comes with the  current set of Debian Cds
> support NTFS? I am asking because I have a friend  who wants her Winxp,
> as well as Linux. Also, can Lilo successfully write to  the Mbr if the
> system itself is installed after the NTFS portion of the disk?  Thanks!
>
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