MBR problems

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Alan Jackson wrote:
> My son with the belly-up machine has some more questions of the
> esteemed forum...
>
> My computer (before it went totally out-of-commission) was running three
> hard drives and one CD-ROM. Why I did this is beyond me. Anyway,
> I had my Windows Disk as Primary Master (/dev/hda), my *second* Windows
> disk as Primary Slave (/dev/hdb), my CD-ROM as Secondary Master (/dev/hdc),
> and Linux as Secondary Slave (/dev/hdd). Linux *appears* to be installed on
> /dev/hdd1, as LILO and the like inform me. By default, however, my MBR is on
> my Primary Master (windows drive /dev/hda). I want to get rid of my windows
> drives, mostly because I think my former Primary Master has been fried like
> McDonald's food. My question, therefore is thus:
> Can I perform a "lilo -M /dev/hdd" under my rescue disk (since there's no

I'm not sure what the -M switch does, i don't see it in the man page for
LILO that i have.

However, if you're confident that it lets you specify a different root,
then it should be safe.

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