[PLUG] MBR (WAS: BSD and LILO and Problems)

[Charles R Allen]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a "safe" way to tamper witht the MBR.  I
have a failed installation of WIN98 still resident (surprise!!!).  I installed
w2k, which I use whenever I need windows (not verry often thankfully) so now I
have 3 records on the MBR (2 dos and one Linux, I think). I was wondering how
I could clean this up a bit without loosing the working ones.

thanks,
-chuck

Dan Noland wrote:

> There exists an ix86 machine that was once running Linux and is now running
> OpenBSD.  The BSD install seems to be in working order, except for one
> thing.  LILO is still sitting happily on the MBR of the zeroith scssi disk.
>  I read up on installboot but whatever I am doing is wrong.  Is installboot
> even the right thing to be doing?  So should I do something interesting to
> get LILO to point to the BSD kernel or how can I get BSD's native
> bootloader to work?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Dan
>
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