Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] Linux and NT

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 03 May 2000 - 09:06:17 IST

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Kev writes:

> -u copies the last saved mbr back, so if you've run lilo more than once,
> say if you rejigged things after installing, it won't restore the "MS mbr"
> (tm). You really need the *proper* NT way of doing things for this one ...

Not quite - LILO checks timestamps to see whether it needs to do another
backup or not, and, unless you did something weird, should restore the
'original' MBR.

Colm

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