Re: Getting rid of Lilo.

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: 7 Aug 2004 17:18:21 GMT

john@wexfordpress.com (John Culleton) writes:

]after much weeping and gnashing of teeth I have convinced my computer
]to boot both Win 2000 and Linux, using the Win boot memo. Now I need
]to either modify or get rid of my former lilo menu. Trouble is, I
]can't. Here is my setup:
]/dev/hda1 Win 2000
]/dev/hda2 Linux

]When I make hda1 bootable I get the Win 2000 boot menu, which in turn
]contains an entry for Linux. When I select Linux I get an old version
]of my lilo menu.
]I seem unable to either update this thingie or get rid of it entirely.
]I updated lilo.conf and ran lilo two different ways, using /dev/hda2
]and /dev/hda as the boot device. But the old lilo persists.

???? How did you run it "two different ways"?
Why did you want to use the Win boot menu? lilo will handle this fine.

You cannot get rid of lilo (except by using grub) since something must know
how to unpack the kernel and start running it.

lilo -b /dev/hda2
should do it.
lilo -b /dev/hda will put it into the boot loader, and it will be lilo
which comes up when you boot the computer, not the Win boot loader.

What is your lilo.conf file?

]Any suggestions?

]John Culleton

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