[Tfug] Any way to disable LILO?

[Harry McGregor]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Hildabrand wrote:

> Harry -
>
> Unfortunately, my XP disk won't autoboot, so I'm forced to install XP Home
> in an unallocated sector.  Also, for some reason the Linux recovery disk I
> made when installing Mandrake 7.1 failed to boot, so I'm sunk a second time.

The XP cd should have a "repair" option, though I have not installed Home
much (I try and stick to Win2K pro or XP Pro, the consumer level MS OSes
are not that great).

Another option is to download and use a grub boot floppy, it might be able
to at least boot your Linux partition, and possible your windows install,
also if you have a FAT16/32 partion, you can download a program called
bootpart from www.winimage.com.

You can download an image of it from:
http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/grub.img

You will want to use either rawrite or winrawrite to write it out to
floppy from windows or "dd" to write it to floppy on a Unix system.

> BTW --
>
> The class I mentioned before is your Friday night group--you might remember
> me by the black eye I'm sporting for the next couple of weeks.

Yes... see you on friday.

> Thanks for the response,

your welcome.

			Harry
> Mark
>
>
> >From: Harry  McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>
> >Reply-To: tfug@tfug.org
> >To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Tfug] Any way to disable LILO?
> >Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:10:20 -0700 (MST)
> >
> >The XP repair should overwrite lilo.  I woudl recommend making a boot disk
> >for your Linux install before trying to repair the windows MBR.
> >
> >		Harry
> >
> >On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Mark Hildabrand
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Here's a real newbie question--
> > >
> > > I recently installed Mandrake Linux in anticipation of a Linux class I'm
> > > currently taking.  My system (used to) dual boots to WinXP and Linux,
> >but,
> > > due to an error during a Partition Magic session, I can no longer access
> > > NTLDR during bootup.  The quick fix is to use my XP setup CD to repair
> >MBR,
> > > but to do that, I need LILO to not run.
> > >
> > > So, how do I disable LILO to implement the fix?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > BTW -- Linux still runs fine.  That's how I am able to send this request
> >for
> > > help.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
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