[NTLUG:Discuss] OT:Fix an MBR in XP
terry
trryhend at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 16:47:08 CST 2009
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
> wrote:
> Alvin Goats wrote:
> > Slackware has options for installing LILO either as the Master Boot
> > Record or on the first SuperBlock. I usually use the first SuperBlock on
> > the bootable Linux partiton which leaves the MBR alone. HOWEVER, this
> > means that you can do anything you want to the MBR and NEVER touch the
> > SuperBlock, so a virus that kills teh MBR won't kill LILO and the
> > ability to boot Linux (been there before). It also means that LILO won't
> > go away until you do something to the lilocondig which disables the
> > SuperBlock or install over the entire partition.
> >
> > Alvin
> >
> >
> > Dennis Myhand wrote:
> >>
> >> Joe Torma wrote:
> >>
> >>> http://www.bootdisk.com/ has some good Linux and win info and
> downloads.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck,
> >>> Joe
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Okay. Finally got it taken care of. I installed Lenny and grub and the
> >> Lilo install from Slack 12.1 is FINALLY gone. I did use fixmbr and
> >> fdisk (made a dos boot disk through partition magic, plus I installed
> >> about 4 other different versions of Linux and I still had the Lilo from
> >> Slack keeping things from booting. Yeah, I know you can edit the config
> >> file, but that only works when you know where it is. Thanks to all for
> >> the assistance. Lenny saves the day!
> >>
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> Can someone tell me why we are still using Lilo?
Because it works.
>
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