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tompouceuh

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Registered: 2006-03-22

Posts: 30

unable to remove lilo

Hi
I want to remove lilo and install grub.
I did pacman -R lilo, it did nothing.
Even if I was modifying lilo.conf nothing was changing...

Now I wonder how to remove it, and to install grub after...

Now my lilo.conf is lilo.pacsave, and lilo works even if its config file isn't there anymore...

weird

Thansk!

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raskolnikov

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From: France

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 100

Re: unable to remove lilo

pacman -R lilo
pacman -S grub

And just install grub on your MBR, it will overwrite lilo's one.

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Sander

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Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 138

Re: unable to remove lilo

you removed the package 'lilo', but you didn't remove the stuff it wrote to your MBR. That's why it's still being read on startup. Imagine what'd happen if pacman could change the contents of your MBR at will

When you install the package 'grub' and then use grub-install or a grub shell to install it to the MBR, the lilo stuff that's still in there will be overwritten.

if you really want to 'empty' your MBR (can't imagine why anyone would want to, though) you could dd zero's to it. It's the first 512 bytes of the HD I believe, but don't take my word for it.

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