On Monday 30 July 2001 12:59 pm, Caruso Aldo wrote:
> I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98,
> partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that
> Mandrake automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did
> not give me a chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1
> did).
>
> As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall
> Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone,
> and booting as it normally boots, without LILO).
>
> How can I accomplish that ?
Not sure what you're saying Aldo, ie, "As I have to check other
Linux Distributions". If you don't want LILO installed in MBR, you
should just boot your W98 start floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' from a DOS
prompt. That puts your mbr back like it was without uninstalling LM.
Then you can still use your Mandrake 8 boot floppy (you did make one,
right?) to boot Mandrake Linux.
There's also ways to use LILO to boot multiple distros, tho I
haven't. Search MandrakeForum. I believe there's a good article there
in the archives by Civileme for doing this. Also, LILO doesn't have to
be installed in mbr, see 'man lilo'.
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Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
