[ale] WinMe and lilo: it works!

phrostie pfrostie at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 22 20:54:22 EDT 2001


ya, i just started having trouble with suntrust recently.


On Tuesday 21 August 2001 21:34, you wrote:
> Seems like I had asked the question several months ago about how Windows
> Millennium Edition (WinMe) and the DOS-based LoadLin executable would react
> when placed together. Well, just in case it wasn't obvious to anyone else,
> I'm happy to report it's a moot point. Turns out my Red Hat Linux 7.1
> install went ahead and made lilo boot on the master boot record (MBR). Both
> RH 7.1 and WinMe boot just fine. Back in '98, there were some problems
> associated with trying to write a lilo-based boot sector to replace the MBR
> written by a FAT32-formatted Windows 98. Good thing I'm in the new
> millennium. :)
>
> Now if only I could fix Mozilla to read my online bank statement, thereby
> reducing the number of reasons I have to still boot into Windows ...
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