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It may be easier to just remove lilo with lilo -U |
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If you cant get the machine to boot so that you can type that, just use |
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a live cd like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, then make symlinks so that lilo |
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would run. IE: |
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mv etc etc.old |
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ln -s /mnt/etc /etc |
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mv boot boot.old |
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ln -s /mnt/boot /boot |
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then just type lilo -U and it should remove the boot stuff and grub MAY |
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load. I've never actually tried it, but I think in theory it looks good |
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hehe. |
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reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying |
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>this: |
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 |
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>Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: |
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> strings mbr.img |
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> LILO |
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> LILOu)^h |
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> `UUfP |
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> fPYX |
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>I thought maybe it could be mounted so: |
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>mkdir mbr |
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> mount -o loop mbr.img mbr |
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>But mount wants to know what `type' filesystem it is. I tried a few |
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>things but really didn't expect them to work like: |
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> ext2 msdos minix iso9660 |
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>None worked of course. So can this be done? Any one know what |
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>should be in there exactly and how to view it? |
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>What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the |
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>lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' |
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>The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a |
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>crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: |
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> Li . . . . Hang forever |
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