Re: Is it legal for me to do that?

Major'Trips' (major@jimco-fwt.com)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:16:50 -0600


On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 09:58:30AM -0500, Roman Wolodymir Mitz wrote:
> Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 17-Dec-98 Re: Is it legal
> for me to d.. by "Major'Trips'"@jimco-fwt
> > in the BIOS and allow the SCSI to boot the system and then let Linux
> > find the IDE devices. Anyone know a simple way around this problem?
>
> In my experience, yes it complains, but it will actually install the
> boot loader and everything is fine. Is this not happening in your case?
>
> Roman.

On my system this ends up corrupting the lilo image in the MBR. Thusly,
I get to see alot of LI01010101010101001010 .. ect..ect..ect.. at boot time if
I don't take special precautions.

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