On Friday 25 Jan 2002 19:04, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh yeah?
> >
> > [18:40 peter@penguin:~]$ sudo rpm -e --nodeps grub
> > [18:41 peter@penguin:~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/detectloader
> > GRUB
>
> As Andrej tried to explain -- detectloader reads your MBR, so the
> packages installed little matter in that case.

OK, I get it now.  I remember now I have to check carefully when 
installing.  DrakX seems to by default select MBR for bootloader - I 
missed that and let it do it a couple of times.  On my multi-boot machine 
I only want to let Wintendo 98 do that.

I'll fix this - it's a job for Acronis OSSelector!   Thanks.
-- 
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.  AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.2.  Up 2 hours 14 minutes.

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