Re: How to de-Grub?

[Robert William Hutton <rwh@helms-deep.cable.nu>]

Simon Kitching wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote:
> > Stephen Cradock wrote:
> > I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD.  LILO, unlike 
> > GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other 
> > partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.
>
> Are you sure? The MBR is only 512 bytes. I'm pretty sure that LILO gets
> the MBR to point to the "real" LILO data residing inside a linux 
> filesystem, just like Grub does. You don't get much code inside 512
> bytes...

I'm no expert, but I thought that you could install lilo from your linux 
partition, then blow that partition away, and still be able to boot windows.