Cameron Simpson, That is what I have been doing, installing GRUB to the MBR and not to the first sector of the root partition. It is not overwriting the LILO present on the MBR. Any ideas?
On 10/10/06, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10Oct2006 16:28, Basho Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Hey. Is there a way to format the MBR inside Linux? The LILO that > | was installed with a distro I tried is not getting written over by > | GRUB from another distro that I'm trying out. Thanks for any help. > > It should be being overwritten. > Make sure you're telling grub-install to install on the device itself > (eg /dev/hda) instead of the first partition (eg /dev/hda1). > -- > Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > It's hard to believe that something as rational as the metric system was > invented by the French. - Henry O. Farad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be > removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
