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i installed debian's unstable, but it installs by default the grub boot loader, which i am not familiar at all. so it can not see the windows partition. my question is how can i remove grub and install lilo? i do not have an internet connection. all from the cd.
I would also like to know how to install lilo and remove grub. There's nothing currently wrong with my grub bootloader, but I just like lilo better I guess. Is it relatively safe to switch bootloaders without totally screwing something up and losing all your data? Hmm, maybe I shouldn't ignore the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying...
apt-get uninstall grub
apt-get install lilo
I would have thought. Since I don't use Debian, I would wait for a more definitive answer from a Debian user - the above could possibly screw up your install.
I know that when/if you re-compile your kernel you have to manually edit the grub or lilo configuration files to point to the right kernel. You might need to do this if you switch boot loaders too, but I'm not sure. I'll find out soon enough I guess
EDIT: I take that back. My debian kernel compilation guide said you had to, but when I installed the kernel it automatically updated my grub configuration files for me. How nice of it to do so
Hey macondo, I did everything you said to do and grub still exists AND is booting over lilo. WTF, I thought I uninstalled it?
The only thing that went bad with running /sbin/lilo is that I didn't have the debian.bmp bit-map file in my boot directory. However I had a sarge.bmp in my boot directory, so I edited my lilo.conf file to load that instead of the debian bmp and after I ran /sbin/lilo again it worked fine.
BUT GRUB IS STILL BOOTING MY SYSTEM! Seriously, what else do I need to do to get lilo to boot instead of grub? I even looked at a grub uninstallation guide and it told me to just run /sbin/lilo and that would do it. Damn you evil bootloader!!!
it will ask you 'if you want to keep <name of package>'
keep them all for now (say yes to all, unless you know you want to get rid of something, be careful with debfoster, if you don't know a lib, let it be), except grub
apt-get -y remove --purge lilo
apt-get clean
start from scratch and install lilo and this time don't get cute with images, believe me, eye candy sucks and slows you down; keep it lean and mean.
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