Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de> writes: > What is the advantage of this rather complicated way against telling > lilo > > boot=/dev/hda2 > > ??????????????? The only real advantage I can think of is that Microsoft products have a nasty habit of wiping lilo off the mbr during upgrades. If you use the NT bootloader, you shouldn't have that problem. Cheers, - Jim