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Detect if it's lilo boot loader or grub?
Without rebooting, is it possible to tell if the boot loader currently present was LILO. GRUB 0.97 or GRUB 1.9X?
I was thinking about reading MBR, but not sure about it. Just by checking the files ...
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How to use persistent names in LILO?
I have two SATA drives, but their names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are chosen randomly by Linux.
How can I correctly set up LILO? How can I put a stable reference to the hard drives in lilo.conf?
ADDED. ...
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Is it possible to pass kernel parameters in the LILO boot prompt?
Is it possible to pass kernel parameters in the LILO boot prompt?
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Gentoo Kernel failing to boot
My machine has two hard drives -- /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
The first has Ubuntu installed. On the second, sdb, I want to install Gentoo.
I did all the installation steps, chrooted and compiled the ...
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Should I use LILO or GRUB or other?
I am making a netinstall DVD which will have netinstall for 10 different Linux distros on it. I will need to install a bootloader on the disk so I can choose which distro I want to install.
Which is ...
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Unable to boot the operating system
I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10.
After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black ...
