LILO Be Gone!

[Brian Densmore]

Actually, I like Jerry's solution best. 

/sbin/lilo -D DOS

That is so cool, guess it really pays to "read the friendly manual". ;')

I never knew you could do that with lilo, ... no, wait a minute, I seem
to
remember there are a whole bunch of little control tricks you can do
with lilo.

Of course this all requires actually reading the instructions. ;')

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lindinger [mailto:jilindi at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:01 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: LILO Be Gone!
> 
> 
> Yes, this is the way to keep dual boot for now, just let Lilo 
> start Windows by default,
> pick Linux only when you want to run it.
> 
> 
> --- "atechsol.net" <crash3m at atechsol.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >I installed RH on a dual-boot system that we no longer need.
> > 
> > >I'd like to change something (I don't know what) so that 
> the machine default boots to
> > windows. Anyone know how I can do this?
> > 
> > crack open /etc/lilo.conf with your favorite text editor, 
> if you have 'default=linux'
> > change it to 'default=windows' if you don't want anyone to 
> know you have linux
> > installed you can remove the timeout/delay entry.  Don't 
> forget to run lilo when your
> > done
> > 
> > >Step Two
> > 
> > >Someday, I'll probably want to remove Linux from the 
> machine entirely. If I boot to
> > DOS with a boot floppy and format the >disk, will that 
> destroy the Linux partitions,
> > too? So, if I install Windows I will get all of the disk back?
> > 
> > >-SD
> > 
> > If your going to remoe linux entirely you will have to 
> remove and create atleast one
> > partition I'm sure.  MS-DOS's fdisk will work, but if you 
> have linux installed you
> > might as well use cfdisk or something of the like.  You 
> could alternativly use a
> > program like partition magic to delete the linux partition 
> and magically resize it to
> > fill the entire drive.  To remove lilo I do 'fdisk /MBR' 
> using a dos bootdisk
> > 
> > Matt 
> > 
> > 
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