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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: MCC 0.97pl2 and lilo
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.220224.24923@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:02:24 GMT
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- In article <1432@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
- > I was installing MCC-interim version 0.97pl2 on my machine with DR DOS, and
- > OS/2 with BootManager. Everything went fine until I continued using the
- > instaructions and installed lilo (first from floppy) then the hard drive.
- > I maybe ignorant, but the docs (installation) said nothing about lilo writing
- > into my master boot block.
-
- I don't know, what the documentation in MCC-Interim tells you to do, but
- LILO never overwrites your MBR unless explicitly asked to (except if your
- root FS happens to span the entire disk, e.g. you don't have any partitions
- at all).
-
- > Now I'm stuck. I have downloaded the lilo documentation - I doubt that I can
- > uninstall it.
-
- If you haven't backed it up before, you can't uninstall it easily. (Starting
- with lilo.5, any boot sector that's overwritten, is backed up automatically.)
-
- > My BootManager no longer boots, although the information for all of
- > the partitions is still there and I can access them by booting off floppy.
- > Oh well, I've got the weekend to rebuild my machine :(
-
- Well, you could try to boot OS/2 from LILO. If /dev/hdaX is your OS/2
- partition, something like
-
- os2=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hdaX@/dev/hda
-
- in your /etc/lilo/install should be able to boot OS/2. (Could anybody who
- is booting OS/2 with LILO please correct me if this is wrong ?)
-
- - Werner
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