Re: Replacing GRUB

From: Sharninder (sharninder_removethis_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 04/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:35:18 +0530

Nick Ballard wrote:

> After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
> concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
> remove GRUB and install Lilo? Can I just copy it out of any

First of all, Are you sure that there is a problem with grub on your
machine ? If you really want to install lilo instead of grub. Read the
lilo documentation and create a lilo.conf file in /etc according to the
docs. And then run /sbin/lilo.

HTH
Sharninder



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