Re: Grub dilemma
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:21:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> 2008/10/18 Frank McCormick <debian@videotron.ca>:
> > I am not installing Ubuntu - it's already installed on hda3. I say
> > again I want to install another Linux on hda3 which uses Lilo...not
> > Grub. I'm asking whether Lilo will screw up Grub. I don't know whether
> > the install will give me the option to skip installing Lilo. If it does
> > there is no problem...but if it doesn't will there be a problem.
> >
>
> If the distro writes LILO to the MBR, then yes that will destroy grub.
> Do you feel confident that you can restore grub from the boot disk in
> the event that it is needed? It is a trivial task but only for those
> who have done it before. In any case, be sure to back it up.
Also, it sounds like grub looks for its menu.lst on hda3. If that's
the case, you'll want to change it before you wipe hda3 to install a
new distribution.
Daniel
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