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   Jim Diamond to root   
   Re: Liveslak vs USBinstall and lost boot   
   13 Mar 23 21:23:21   
   
   From: JimDiamond@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   On 2023-03-10 at 04:06 AST, root  wrote:   
   > noel  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:29:43 +0000, root wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Over the years I could not count the number of times that one of my   
   >>> machines which uses lilo has lost its boot sector. I use grub now in my   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Strange, never had a lilo boot failure (that wasnt caused by operator   
   >> error in nearly 30 years)   
   >   
   > I'll confess. I'm certain almost always my incorrect use of lilo,   
   > as it was in this case.   
   >   
   > I have, however, had the boot sector wiped when an ssd was the   
   > boot drive and some program I was developing crashed.   
      
   Logged in as root at the time, by any chance?   
      
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