Re: I want to get rid of lilo!

["Tj" <Transwarp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

at one point i found it easer to use lilo when i had more then one hard
dirve and with mandrake grub is good for dule booting on one hard drive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Wood" <treii28@yahoo.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: I want to get rid of lilo!


> grub is included in mandrake btw and it offers you the choice of that or
lilo.
>
> As far as the original question, it depends on where the bootloader(s)
were
> installed.  They can be installed in the drive master boot record, or on
the
> start of the partitions themselves.  The best bet under DOS/windows (not
sure
> if it is the same for NT, but most likely NT will have some equivalent if
you
> type FDISK /? and read the result) is to run FDISK /MBR as that will clear
the
> master boot record.  (the MBR is the default most linux dists use to
install
> lilo)
>
> Scott
>
> --- Jeff Mayrand <mayrandj@home.com> wrote:
> > I just read a pretty good article in Linux Journal regarding another
boot
> > loader called grub.  You might want to take a look at that.
> >
> > Jeff Mayrand
> >
> > On 2001.05.02 18:03 Alan DeJong wrote:
> > > Everybody-
> > >
> > > I have a HD in which i install various software i have.. i use it as
my
> > > test HD.  well, about a week ago i installed redhat 6.0 on it to play
> > > around with it for a while.. Now this week, i would
> > > like to install NT4.0... so when i repartitioned the HD for NTFS, and
> > > installed everything, i restarted the comptuer, (like it said to) but
> > > lilo kicked in and said "Li" and quit...  I just
> > > though NT, (like everything else M$ makes, would just assume it was
the
> > > only OS, and install a boot loader.. but it did not.. Any idea how i
can
> > > get rid of this?
> > >
> > > -Alan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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