On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:54:59PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote: > > > You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates > > > the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original > > > LILO (which also had the original MBR) is gone, you can't uninstall LILO. > > > > > > What you wanna do here is REinstall LILO. Make it boot directly into > > > Windows without prompting. Create a lilo.conf file then run: > > > > I'm not sure I understand how that will work, since lilo.conf lives in > > /etc, on the Linux side... am I right? If that's the case, then LILO > > won't be able to see lilo.conf. > > Concept check: lilo.conf is only significant at the moment the "lilo" > application is run to install it... the contents of lilo.conf get > translated into binary information that is stored in the mbr (or the > beginning of a partition). Where you put lilo.conf is up to you if you use > the "-C" option. > > If you are a perfect person or don't mind practicing to be perfect, you > could cat it to a file in /tmp (ramdisk), give it to lilo with "-C", and > then send it to bit heaven with the power switch, and lilo could work fine > from then on. > > If you are not perfect and the windows partition is formatted as vfat, you > could put it there... that would only be for your convenience in case you > have to fine tune it to get it working right. In this case, be sure not > to hit the power switch... that trick only works when you only have > ramdisks mounted.
Doesn't LILO need a second-stage bootloader that lives on a filesystem somewhere? Would the second-stage bootloader be able to live on a vfat or ntfs filesystem? Would LILO keep working if you defragmented the hard drive? -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***
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