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

[bubba]

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?

 

[Priit]

Reconfigure LILO, install (run) it, overwrite MBR. Before that be sure you know what's you are doing

 

[bubba]

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?

 

[Priit]

Isn't that the first line in the lilo.conf file ?

 

[Damaged]

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?

 

[Smash144]

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