Re: How to de-Grub?
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Robert William Hutton 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.
That's not correct, although it's a common misunderstanding. The code in
the MBR is the stage 1 loader. Its purpose is to load the stage 2 loader
into memory from somewhere else on the hard drive.
The two web pages give an explaination of how booting with LILO works:
http://home.att.net/~lilo-boot/lbuild.htm
http://home.att.net/~lilo-boot/l-i-l-o.htm
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Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com
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