hi

got a slight problem, i just uninstalled fedora and installed slackware but when i rebooted rater than being presented with lilo like i expected, there was a grub command line.. so i went into slacklive, formatted the harddrive completely with no paritions.. rebooted and grub is still there

where the hell is grub booting from, and how do i get rid of it? im on my laptop which has no bios access so i cant select where it boots from which is what i would try on my normal pc

please help asap

thanks

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Where did you choose to install lilo to during the Salck installation?
You can try this to boot Slack with grub:
root [slackware partition in grub format]
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=[slack partition in Linux format]
boot

ok but how do i get rid of grub, seems to be booting from nowhere?

Well, what I can suggest is that you boot from the slackware live CD and then, as root, run

fdisk /dev/hda

Now delete all existing partitions if there are any. Once you delete them, press 'p' to list current table structure and then if you are satisfied, press 'w' to write the new partition table to the disk.

If that dosent work, then what you can do is use fdisk to create a new partiton of type WIN 95 Fat32 LBA and then use a 'windows 98 boot floppy/cd', to boot into DOS and on command line, give the command

fdisk /mbr

This will remove any installation of grub if it exists.

Regards,

amit

Installing lilo to the MBR should have gotten rid of grub.

Well, DrGnome, since you've written that you've formatted your drive, my reply assumes that you have no linux distro installed and you want to get rid of grub.

If that is not the case then please DO NOT follow my suggestion. If you have a linux partiton intact (i.e slackware), then do as suggested by aaa..{ I'd add an initrd entry to the boot commands too }

root [slackware partition in grub format]
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=[slack partition in Linux format]
initrd /boot/initrd-<version>.img
boot

Replacing GRUB with LILO is also quite easy...

1. Just edit your lilo.conf as per requirement.

2. Now give the following commands one after the other-

lilo

lilo -v -v

3. Reboot...and you've got LILO..!

Regards,

amit