Converting from gub back to lilo
I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel) which curently uses grub in the MBR for a boot loader. Now, I'm pretty happy with grub, but I need to build a disaster recovery CD using Mondo for thei machien, and Mondo does not support grub yet. So, I need to covnert back to lilo. Seems to me that IO need to get a valid lili.conf, and run lilo, right? Will this overwrite the existing MBR? Other than that, I build kernels using kernel-package, and somehow it knows to use grub, so I need to figure out how to tell it to use lilo instead. Whats The Debian Way of doing this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Converting from gub back to lilo
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel) which curently uses grub in the MBR for a boot loader. Now, I'm pretty happy with grub, but I need to build a disaster recovery CD using Mondo for thei machien, and Mondo does not support grub yet. So, I need to covnert back to lilo. Seems to me that IO need to get a valid lili.conf, and run lilo, right? Will this overwrite the existing MBR? Yes, it will--if you tell LILO to install itself within the MBR. From what I can tell of the documentation, you don't actually have to install LILO, you just need it so that Mondo can use it. Other than that, I build kernels using kernel-package, and somehow it knows to use grub, so I need to figure out how to tell it to use lilo instead. Whats The Debian Way of doing this? The packages that kernel-package uses already know about LILO. They will ask you if you want to rewrite your boot sector. Simon
