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How can I move LILO from the MBR to the boot block of the partition?

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bubba

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On an already installed machine I think I might want to move LILO from the MBR to the boot bock of a partition. Anyone know how?
 
Reconfigure LILO, install (run) it, overwrite MBR. Before that be sure you know what's you are doing 🙂
 

I know how to configure it, I know how to run it, but it is always written to the MBR. How can I write it to the boot block of the individual partition?
 
What do you mean by the boot block here? What are you trying to do exactly? You don't want it in the MBR? Fine.fdisk /dev/hdxx mark the partion as bootable. Now /sbin/lilo -u /dev/hdxx. If you don't know what this is just look at what boot= is set to in the /etc/lilo.conf, now edit /etc/lilo.conf and set boot=/dev/hdxx. Finally /sbin/lilo Voila! Done.Is that what you're after?
 
there are two options:

from linux:
lilo -U
this will uninstall lilo altogether.. (you can reinstall by typing lilo with no extra parameters)

from dos:
fdisk /mbr
that will clear the mbr
 
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