RE: [SLE] Reinstalling LILO

From: "Geoff Waldron" <geoff.waldron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:05:37 -0000

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From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 February 2006 17:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [SLE] Reinstalling LILO

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:29 +0000, Geoff Waldron wrote:

Hello

I have a dual boot Thinkpad (R40 with XP / Linux) and want to remove
Ubuntu and install openSUSE without touching my M$ XP (required for
work). How do I uninstall GRUB, reinstate LILO / openSUSE, and leave
the M$ XP partition bootable from LILO? Linux partition maybe overwritten.
Thanks for all your help in advance.

What makes you think you need to get rid of grub? It is installed as the
default boot loader with SuSE.

The boot loaders looked different between SUSE and Ubuntu (sorry im still
learning), so I can just boot SUSE 10.0 DVD and install (reformat Ubuntu
partitions)?

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