FC4t2 no good without LILO

Mike Bird mgb-fedora at yosemite.net
Thu Apr 14 19:58:21 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:37, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> So on my single disk non raid system... with fc2 installed
> because od -c /boot/boot.b | head -1 reports back
> 0000000 353   H 220   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004   Z  \0
> 
> that means i really have lilo in my mbr and that its chainloading into grub?

It says nothing about your MBR.

> Really? This disk has been used to do fresh installs of red hat from
> rhl 6.2 all the way through fc2 now. But I'm really actually still
> using lilo? And its chainbooting grub?
> Really?

/boot/boot.b is the Lilo original and /boot/grub/stage1 is the Grub
original.  They're both munged a bit during install.  Compare the
originals with your boot drive MBR as explained previously, e.g.

# od -c /dev/hde | head -1
0000000   ú   ë   |   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004   Z  \0

--Mike Bird




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