Tzafrir Cohen
Sun, 26 May 2002 19:10:48 -0700
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Ez-Aton wrote: > I will check. I belive it has some sort of removal mechanism, I will check > into it. > It's just that I preffer Lilo... I personally wouldn't trust such a "uninstall" option to cleany "uninstall" lilo without understanding a couple of things about boot loaders. You see, only one program can occupy the MBR, the first sector of the disk that is executed by the bios if the system is to be loaded from this disk. This is only 512 bytes, and it also has to include the main partition table, so boot loaders place only an initial piece of code there that calls the rest of the code from a seperate location (OK, at least lilo does). Anyway, when the boot loader gets installed, it has a chance of saving the old data/boot-loader that was there. However this data is not guaranteed to be correct anymore. If you have happened to change your windows partition, this information is probably invalid, that is: point to an ifformation that will not load you your system. Generally you should run over lilo/grub with a new boot-loader. e.g: run 'fdisk /mbr' as someone else suggested. [general comment: I didn't reply to the original message. I replied to this message. This one is interesting enough. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . Though a beginner will sometimes find this difficult to follow ;-) . I also must comment that my attitude to newbie questions differs depending on the mailing list. http://linux.org.il/mailing-lists/ ] -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]