Re: [SLE] Moving LILO to the Boot Sector

On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:07:36 -0500 Dennis Tuchler wrote:

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I have just inadvertently knocked OS2 off my computer, and all I have is the boot selector program, which now selects only OS2 and not Linux!

S.u.S.E. 7.3 is installed, and used to boot from its own boot partition. I would now like to move the information in that

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 11:45, zentara wrote: partition

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so Linux starts on bootup. How do I do it without completely reinstalling?

Boot from the install disk or cdrom, choose "boot installed system". Once booted, login as root and run yast, choose System Administration/ Kernal and Boot Configuration/Lilo Configuration

Once in set up lilo and install it in the mbr.

You may want to setup the lilo configuration twice. Once to install lilo to the mbr and a second time to install lilo on a floppy. This way no matter what happens to the mbr you will still have the floppy to use to boot in SuSE. If you are not going to reinstall OS/2 you should probably use the OS/2 boot disk - fdisk to remove the OS/2 bootmanager from your system. The hard disk space is not significant (~7 mb) and OS/2 bootmanager is usually very well behaved, but I would not think it is a good to have an excess boot manager (besides lilo) sitting on your system. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? GPG/PGP ID - 0x7A1BEA01