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Re: grub vs lilo



On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:05:13 -0500
Jon Roed <jroed@shaw.ca> wrote:

> On May 31, 2005 12:44 am, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Grub is uninstalled, but it is still written to your MBR. You'll need to
> > run 'lilo' as root (no options necessary) to get it to re-write itself
> > to the MBR and overwrite Grub.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why are you switching FROM grub TO lilo? Most
> > people (myself included) do just the opposite.
> 
> I tried running lilo (as root)  and i get two warnings:
> 
> Warning: boot record relocation beyond BPB is necessary: /dev/hda1
> Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
> 
> i am not too sure what they are all about.  But i suspect that the first one 
> is the reason that it's not writing to the master boot record.
> 
> As for why i am switching to LILO, i have never used GRUB before and i have 
> been having problems with it.  I am more familiar with LILO.

What does your lilo.conf look like?  (Strip the comments if you
attach it.)

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