On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:45:28PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dual boot with Windows and I'm about to remove the latter. excellent! > Q: If there is just Linux, then do I still need Lilo? well yes, lilo is LInux LOader, you need a bootloader to boot GNU/Linux. however you don't necessarily need lilo, you could also use grub which is really quite a bit nicer (but not as easy to setup IMO) > Q: How do I get a Linux only boot going? if your already using lilo just delete any `other=' entries from /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. make sure that boot=/dev/hda and not boot=/dev/hda1 or whatever. (replace hda with whatever device is appropriate, sda for first scsi disk for example) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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