Re: Converting from gub back to lilo
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel) which curently uses grub
> in the MBR for a boot loader.
>
> Now, I'm pretty happy with grub, but I need to build a disaster recovery CD
> using Mondo for thei machien, and Mondo does not support grub yet. So, I
> need to covnert back to lilo.
>
> Seems to me that IO need to get a valid lili.conf, and run lilo, right?
> Will this overwrite the existing MBR?
Yes, it will--if you tell LILO to install itself within the MBR.
>From what I can tell of the documentation, you don't actually have to
install LILO, you just need it so that Mondo can use it.
> Other than that, I build kernels using kernel-package, and somehow it knows
> to use grub, so I need to figure out how to tell it to use lilo instead.
>
> Whats "The Debian Way" of doing this?
The packages that kernel-package uses already know about LILO.
They will ask you if you want to rewrite your boot sector.
Simon
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