Damien Mc Kenna wrote:
> > >I am currently running a dual boot system with Win98 on Drive 0 and
> > >Mandrake 6.1 on Drive 1. The boot is setup in the MBR. I want to
> > >remove Drive 0 and make it a Single Drive system using only the Mandrake
> > >6.1 drive. Is there anyway to do this without reloading completely?
>
> I've not tested it but this should work:
> - create a LILO boot floppy disk.
> - remove drive 0 and set drive 1 as the master drive.
> - book using the floppy disk.
> - when you get into KDE, run kLILO to change the boot drive to the MBR
> again.
>
> I'm actually not even sure if this would work as the book floppy would
> probably expect to boot off Drive 1.
> Give it a try, if it doesn't work just stick drive 0 back in again.
>
> Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133
> Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
If you go into linuxconf in X, there is an option for lilo config. Go to the
option for boot mode, then lilo linuix configurations and click on the one
with linux under label. when it comes up, change root pattition from
/dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda1. then go back to the boot configuration screen and
click on lilo defaults. under install boot sector on, make it /dev/hdb. then
go back to boot config screen and take and other oss out of lilo other os
configurations. make sure you accept and activate all the changes or it won't
work. shutdown the system and take drive 0 out. reboot with drive one as
drive 0 and you should be all set to go. I tried this on my system and it
worked fine. I did go back into linuxconf and changed install lilo on back to
/dev/hda tho so it didn't hose me later. good luck
Will Trepanier
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