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! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Matt B. White Tel: 508.969.2836
