yeah, thanks I understood. I actually did use a boot disk and when I got into redhat, ran lilo, but it still didn't work because I have too many cylinders on my hard drive (or something) so I had to use the switch -L to make lilo work. It works now. Thanks. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Velzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone > Tim: > First delete Grub: in DOS mode type fdisk /mbr > Second: install RedHat, perhaps Lilo don�t run after install (some bugs in > RedHat install) so when install Red Hat make a boot floppy during > instalation. > If Lilo don�t run after instalation, must run Red Hat with boot floppy, and > then go to linuxconf and set lilo. Next time you boot lilo run ok. > I you have windows NT you must run Red Hat booting from floppy. With win98 > or ME you can use Lilo. > Sorry foy my bad english. Hope you understand. > > Daniel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Faehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:22 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone > > > > I'll probably use LILO when it comes to it, but i still can't even get it > > installed at the moment. When I tried to install LILO with the Redhat, my > > computer wouldn't even get to the LILO command line. It would only get to > > the "stage1" part of Grub. So I think I need to get rid of Grub first and > > I'm not sure how to do that. Does anyone know? Do I need to delete grub > > files as well? Where do they reside? > > > > Tim > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 7:51 PM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone > > > > > > > I have multiples OS's and like LILO for the most part except - if > > > you load it in the upper 1024 of memory the only way to get rid of it > > > is to hand delete its files; fdisk doesn't remove it. However when it > > > comes to multiple OS's it's handy as it boots and waits for you to > > > choose - if you do nothing it defaults to Linux. You can edit it for > > > any OS you want to set as default plus you can edit it to set the > > > length of time LILO waits before booting to default. > > > > > > > > > On 5 Dec 2000, at 17:48, Tim Faehnle wrote: > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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