Re: Linux should not be booting
> this evidently does not overwrite the boot sector, does grub-install do
> this? I have yet to run grub-install. Of course, this would not explain why
> my system still boots after deleting the vmlinuz files.
Yes it could: you installed `grub' on your Debian system, but you
haven't activated it, so you're still booting with Lilo, which uses
a "list of disk blocks" to find the kernel, so as long as those disk
blocks don't get overwritten, it'll boot just fine.
Stefan
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