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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:42 PM

I have tried installing several commercial Linux distributions (Red
Hat 9, SuSE 8.2, Lycoris) on my computer recently, and none of them
have been able to boot. I had originally thought that the problem was
being caused by a glitch in the BIOS, or in the OSes themselves.
After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
remove GRUB and install Lilo? Can I just copy it out of any
distribution that uses Lilo, or does it need to be done a certain way?
Any help would be great. Thanks.

Nick

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:43 PM

/sbin/lilo (as root) should do it (...providing that your lilo
configuration is okay)

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Nick Ballard wrote:
> I have tried installing several commercial Linux distributions (Red
> Hat 9, SuSE 8.2, Lycoris) on my computer recently, and none of them
> have been able to boot. I had originally thought that the problem was
> being caused by a glitch in the BIOS, or in the OSes themselves.
> After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
> concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
> remove GRUB and install Lilo? Can I just copy it out of any
> distribution that uses Lilo, or does it need to be done a certain way?
> Any help would be great. Thanks.
>
> Nick

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:43 PM

On 16 Nov 2003 18:10:52 -0800, in article
<109bb5af.0311161810.50fefab5@posting.google.com >, Nick Ballard wrote:

> After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
> concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
> remove GRUB and install Lilo?

(1) Configure LILO (edit /etc/lilo.conf).
(2) Run /sbin/lilo (it rewrites the boot sector).

LILO is now in charge of booting.

You'll have to decide whether (or not) to "uninstall" the GRUB package
iteself. How you do this depends on how you "installed" it.

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:43 PM

Nick Ballard wrote:
> I have tried installing several commercial Linux distributions (Red
> Hat 9, SuSE 8.2, Lycoris) on my computer recently, and none of them
> have been able to boot. I had originally thought that the problem was
> being caused by a glitch in the BIOS, or in the OSes themselves.
> After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
> concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
> remove GRUB and install Lilo? Can I just copy it out of any
> distribution that uses Lilo, or does it need to be done a certain way?
> Any help would be great. Thanks.
>
> Nick
IIRC, at least SuSE 8.2 allows you to choose the bootloader during
installation. Choose LILO instead of the default GRUB, as simple as that.

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#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:53 PM

Nick Ballard wrote:

> After some experimentation with these and a few other distros, I have
> concluded that the problem is with the GRUB bootloader. How do I
> remove GRUB and install Lilo? Can I just copy it out of any

First of all, Are you sure that there is a problem with grub on your
machine ? If you really want to install lilo instead of grub. Read the
lilo documentation and create a lilo.conf file in /etc according to the
docs. And then run /sbin/lilo.

HTH
Sharninder

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