Re: unsatisfied Linux lover

On 2007-03-30, winston19842005@xxxxxxxxx <winston19842005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That isn't to say I haven't had to deal with Linux issues and hard
drives. Ever since moving from LILO to GRUB, you had a whole new tool
to learn that has its own view of things and will easily blow away the
MBR of your drive, rendering it unbootable - I did wish to keep
Windows around - and it wouldn't resurrect even with all the fine
suggestions of this ng. Although I was able to mount the partition in
Linux. Go figure.

You could have kept lilo. Once again, don't blame *linux* for problems
in a distro or a program!

--keith

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