how to switch lilo's

fobius · 01-30-2005, 02:29 AM

Hi,

I have Mandrake installed on my boot hard disk with windows xp. I have a second hard disk that holds my Slackware system. My Mandrake drive was /dev/hda until I installed my second drive (a Maxtor SATA), which caused it to be recognized as /dev/hde. Up until now, I've been booting Slackware using the lilo that Mandrake installed. I want to erase Mandrake but I'm wondering what will happen to lilo. How would I reinstall lilo from Slack? Would I need to?

egag · 01-30-2005, 07:22 AM

well, just boot slackware, and login.
become root ( su )
then run " liloconfig " ; choose expert-mode, add Slackware and win.
install in the mbr of the drive that boots and you're ready.

( before you do that, maybe good to make a rescue-floppy
with " mkrescue " ).

egag

fobius · 01-30-2005, 12:28 PM

thanks for the tip. However, if I do this, will the lilo from mandrake be overwritten? Will that affect my Windows boot sector?

egag · 01-30-2005, 12:36 PM

yep....lilo-from-mandrake will be overwriten with the one you install.
if you add Slack. and win. in the " liloconfig", then at boot you'll get the choice btw. win/lin.

the mandrake partitions you can reformat for other use.

egag

fobius · 01-30-2005, 01:30 PM

ok, sounds good. thanks egag, i'll see how it goes.

fobius · 01-30-2005, 01:33 PM

actually, i get the following just before I run lilo from slack:

Code:

Warning: Partition 1 on /dev/hda is not marked Active.
Warning: partition type 0x0B on device 0x0301 is a dangerous place for
    a boot sector.  A DOS/Windows/OS2 system may be rendered unbootable.
  The backup copy of this boot sector should be retained.

is it safe to proceed? is there something i'm missing?

egag · 01-30-2005, 03:59 PM

well, if you've added win. in the lilo-setup. i think it should work ok.
also, a copy of the bootsector you're going to overwrite will be stored in :

/boot/boot.0300.

hope all works....

egag