Re: lilo probs

You guess right.

The boot loader (lilo or grub) may be installed in the mbr or another
partition. If you install it somewhere other than the mbr, things get a
bit complicated (more so with lilo). Unless you have reason to do
otherwise (dual booting with Windoze, for example), I'd install it in
the mbr only.

Anyone out there want to elaborate (or correct me if I'm wrong)?

mike hoy wrote:
> thx, i;m guessing that i don't need to remove the mbr,
> that email was a bit hurried, i'm thinking now that i
> must have installed grub to a different part of the
> hdd instead of the mbr. therefore lilo had no reason
> to be 'gone' it was still 'there' on the mbr and i
> needed to put grub on the mbr and that would have
> solved it.
>
> mike h
> --- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote:
>
>
>>mike hoy wrote:
>>
>>>hi,
>>>
>>>i installed gentoo and chose grub.
>>>
>>>when i rebooted lilo was still there.
>>>
>>>for an experiment i deleted an entire hdd and lilo
>>
>>was
>>
>>>still there. i guess it's hard to delete the mbr..
>>>
>>>anyway how does one completely wipeout a hdd with
>>>linux?
>>>
>>>i don't want my old lilo on my hdd.
>>>
>>>question: do i have to install lilo again instead
>>
>>of
>>
>>>grub so that the old lilo will be gone?
>>>
>>>confused,,
>>>
>>>mike h
>>>
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>>Mike,
>>These types of questions are very educational for
>>the group. It's often
>>enlighening to see what problems others encounter,
>>and more importantly
>>the solutions.
>>
>>I went to google and searched on "Linux remove mbr".
>>The very first hit
>>was at M$, of all places:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315224
>>I think you'll find a satisfactory answer there.
>>
>> From what it says, lilo can be removed from the MBR
>>of a drive with
>>"lilo -u /dev/hda" (substitute appropriate drive
>>designation). It
>>doesn't say how to remove the actual MBR, and I
>>don't know how/why to do
>>that.
>>
>>Hope that helps!
>>

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>>  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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