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I need to overwrite LILO
Name: Sam Date: September 11, 2002 at 22:04:36 Pacific OS: SUSE and WinXP CPU/Ram: pentium 4, 256 pc600
Comment:
Lilo got automatically installed on my machine, since I wasn't there for the ftp installation. Now, it wont run windows. I know for a fact that my machine worked with GRUB using redhat 7.3 and WinXP.
I need to know how to overwrite LILO with GRUB so I can boot into WinXP, or possibly fix Lilo to actually boot into WinXP.
-note: when Lilo comes up, and I select windows, it comes up with some other loader, and the windows on that one wont work, only the linux safe settings will-
Name: Sam Date: September 11, 2002 at 22:06:31 Pacific
Reply:
one last thing I forgot to mention(*GASP*) this is my first posting on a forum for linux. :) and also the linux distro I am running is SUSE. Sorry for not mentioning it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Lawrence Date: September 12, 2002 at 04:49:40 Pacific
Reply:
To remove lilo,
lilo -u -or- man lilo (for more info)
Lawrence
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Response Number 3
Name: casey Date: September 14, 2002 at 20:58:05 Pacific
Reply:
get an win 98 start up disk and run fdisk /mbr. This will write over the master boot record (lilo) with a widows. If you are using win xp / 2000 use the fixboot and fixmbr commands from the recovery console. hope this helps.
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