Re: [newbie] lilo basics

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

"Shaffer, Earl" wrote:
> 
> We are planning to use a Toshiba 4010 as a test box for RH 5.2 and Oracle
> 805 and then 815.
> 
> We are getting conflicting recommendations regarding having an MSDOS part.
> and the use of "lilo".
> 
> Is lilo used even if you do not have an MSDOS partition?

Yes.  Even if the machine is Linux only, something must load Linux.
That's LILO (The Linux Loader).