[Tfug] LILO

Ronald Sutherland ronald.sutherland at gmail.com
Mon May 19 17:12:16 MST 2008


yes that was what I had to do, but with lilo, it was self fixing, and even
restored mrb's for non-windows OS's (crap like O/S 2, netware, QNX)

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.net> wrote:

> Ronald Sutherland wrote:
> > hmm... last time I tried to restore a windows boot manager I could not
> > find a way to do it with GRUB, if I recall it was "lilo -U" to get the
> > old boot manager put back ... I liked that, so how does GRUB do that?
> You mean you want the Windows bootloader?  Last I saw (not sure if this
> works with Vista), boot into the Windows rescue CDROM and run "fdisk
> /mbr" to restore the Windows master boot record.
>
>  Jeff
>
>
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