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[ILUG] Which bootloader?

[ILUG] Which bootloader?

Ray Kelly ray at skynet.ie
Thu Dec 5 18:00:04 GMT 2002


adam beecher wrote:
> 
> Here's a better question: Is it possible to find out what bootloader it
> loaded into the MBR /now/? If so, and it's grub, can I just uninstall lilo
> and be damned with it?

dd if=/dev/boot_disk count=1 bs=512 |strings
will tell you which bootloader is there.
if LILO's there just -u it & do whatever's needed to get grub in place.

	Ray ...



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