Petrohead
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Joined: Sep. 2004 |
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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,23:24 |
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I understand completely you wanting to preserve your data. However, whatever you ultimately decide to do,,, back that data up somewhere .........
I have not installed DSL 0.7.2, so I am not familiar with that versions install routine. As a matter of fact I dont't remember, and it's only been a couple weeks since I installed 0.7.3, if you even have an option to not install LILO. One thing that I do remember though is at the end of the install, you are given the option to run LILO or mklilo (I forget for sure), which in effect will right LILO to the MBR. So I would guess that you could answer no to that option. That way, since you haven't written anything to the MBR, GRUB will still be your boot loader. Now this is assuming that you have GRUB written to the MBR. At this point you should be able boot and choose a prompt at the GRUB screen and edit GRUB to point to your DSL installation.
Now if you blow this, don't panic. As long as you don't change the NTFS partition, while wiping out your SuSE install everything will be fine on your NTFS partition. If you find that you can't boot to anything you simply drop into the recovery console by booting with the xp CD and choosing that option (recovery console), and run either FIXBOOT or FIXMBR, either one will do the basically the same thing, rewriting the MBR and allowing you to boot into your xp OS. This will also wipe out GRUB or LILO .........
LILO is not so bad, it doen't look as 'pretty' as GRUB, but it does the same thing and will find any bootable OS's you have installed when run. It's a bit more straight forward to me than GRUB is as well. That's just my opinion on GRUB vs LILO. One advantage of GRUB is it's immediate, 'on-the-fly', when making changes, while LILO will require a reboot ..............
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