[Tfug] LILO

[Ronald Sutherland]

hmm... last time I tried to restore a windows boot manager I could not find
a way to do it with GRUB, if I recall it was "lilo -U" to get the old boot
manager put back ... I liked that, so how does GRUB do that?

sorry for hijacking

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, LILO is obsolete.  GRUB does everything LILO can and more.
>
> Regards,
> Jude
>
> On 5/19/08, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> > On Mon May 19, 2008 at 10:56:40AM +0200, Eric Christian wrote:
> >> An install of debian 4.0r3 DVD i386 on a notebook here (Intel
> >> core 2 duo processor, Intel duo Processor)with 2 partitions,
> >> a 2 GB /swap and a / partition, proceeded with a number of
> >> things going wrong, the worst being not able to install LILO,
> >> so all is not bootable as is. i suppose one could make a
> >> USB-bootstick? But, i want LILO. what to do?
> >
> > Is there any reason you are choosing LILO? Grub is the default in
> > 4.0.
> >
> > --
> > Glen
> >
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