On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:37:23 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: Uninstalling LILO
>
> According to Karel Bemelmans: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:54:05 +0000 (GMT)
> > > From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Uninstalling LILO
> > >
> > > According to Chris Grant: While burning my CPU.
> > > >
> > > > Could someone tell me how to uninstall LILO, or install the Win95/DOS
> > > > boot loader? I have Win95 and Linux running on the same box, and ever
> > > > since I installed Linux, Windows has been running really strangely. The
> > > > screen will often freeze and nothing will happen for a long time, all
> > > > I'll be able to do is move the mouse. Ctrl-Alt-Del only works sometimes,
> > > > and when it does, it takes a long time for the window to come up. Since
> > > > this problem started when I installed Linux, and LILO is the only thing
> > > > that even remotely interacts with Windows, I figured that must be the
> > > > problem. My lilo.conf stanza for Windows looks like this:
> > > >
> > > > other = /dev/hda1
> > > > table = /dev/hda
> > > > label = msdos
> > > >
> > > > It's also the first stanza, so it loads automatically. Linux boots fine
> > > > when I select it, so I doubt it's stanza is relevant. Thanks for any
> > > > help or suggestions.
> > >
> > > I cant quite see what LILO or the /mbr for that matter has to do with "any"
> > > other partition on "any" drive, so i suspect you are putting the blame
> > > "unfoundedly" on LILO.
> > >
> > > However if you wish to uninstall lilo thats very easy,
> > > 'lilo -u /boot/boot.NNNN'
> >
> > On my Slackware it's called /boot/boot.b
>
> Sorry but you are mistaken, boot.b is where the first and second stage boot
> loaders are stored for LILO use at boottime.
Then were is the /boot/boot.NNN file on my system ?
Karel
Karel Bemelmans, Narfum Inc.
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