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how do i get rid of GRUB???
Name: balram Date: August 29, 2002 at 08:40:16 Pacific
Comment:
hi all, i want to remove grub and install lilo instead. I kept a grub password and i think thats what keeping me from removing it and clearing the MBR...I ran lilo with the -v option but grub doesn't get cleared. I even uninstalled grub from the rpm command. Is there any way i can get rid of it?
Name: abatis Date: August 29, 2002 at 09:15:52 Pacific
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If you are using Redhat 7.3 you could try rebooting from Disk 1 and going through the first part of the install. Select Upgrade and it should take you to a screen to modify the boot manager.
Good Luck
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Response Number 2
Name: balram Date: August 29, 2002 at 09:35:05 Pacific
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thanks, but do i need to do all that? actually i was going to chuck out redhat 7.3 and use debian. I installed debian from scratch using redhat. Any other way i can remove grub?
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Response Number 3
Name: Lawrence Date: August 29, 2002 at 13:41:40 Pacific
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Boot up using either Win95 or Win98 bootable disk and at the A:\> prompt, type
fdisk /mbr
Lawrence
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Response Number 4
Name: balram Date: August 29, 2002 at 14:21:08 Pacific
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but i don't want the win95 bootloader! Or i'll have more problems (i don't have a floppy drive or a cdrom drive to boot linux from)
edit lilo.conf and run lilo -v that's right, but try to se the first line to point to /dev/hda1, then run lilo -v then it will overwrite mbr. (i have the same problem)
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