Slackware14.2 on sda, Slackware -current on sdb: LILO in mbr(sda) and sdb2. How to remove lilo from sbd2
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Hello all
Massive goof-up. LILO was on sda/MBR already. when I installed current on sdb, I installed LILO on /sdb2 which is the bootable root partition, thinking that I can select which to boot from keyboard (Desktop) without going into BIOS. Fighting with this from morning, If I get current to boot properly, 14.2 gets mucked up. If 14.2 is some how made to boot, current gets mucked up. In BIOS, it shows master / slave for sda sdb, but I think it is dynamically changing
Tried to uninstall lilo from /sdb2.
Below is from slackware current on sdb
Code:bash-5.0# lilo -v
LILO version 24.2 (released 22-November-2015)
* Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger (until v20)
* Copyright (C) 1999-2007 John Coffman (until v22)
* Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Joachim Wiedorn (since v23)
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software
distributed under the BSD License (3-clause). Details can be found in
the file COPYING, which is distributed with this software.
Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb2
Warning: /dev/sdb2 is not on the first disk
Warning: Device 0x0810: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry
CHS address in PT: 16:97:34 --> LBA (248064)
LBA address in PT: 16779264 --> CHS (1109:177:34)
Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified
If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)
bash-5.0# lilo -u /dev/sdb2
Warning: /dev/sdb2 is not on the first disk
Fatal: Boot sector of /dev/sdb2 does not have a boot signature
bash-5.0#Pl. guide how to remove this LILO from /sdb2 and configure dual boot properly
Massive goof-up. LILO was on sda/MBR already. when I installed current on sdb, I installed LILO on /sdb2 which is the bootable root partition, thinking that I can select which to boot from keyboard (Desktop) without going into BIOS. Fighting with this from morning, If I get current to boot properly, 14.2 gets mucked up. If 14.2 is some how made to boot, current gets mucked up. In BIOS, it shows master / slave for sda sdb, but I think it is dynamically changing
Tried to uninstall lilo from /sdb2.
Below is from slackware current on sdb
Code:bash-5.0# lilo -v
LILO version 24.2 (released 22-November-2015)
* Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger (until v20)
* Copyright (C) 1999-2007 John Coffman (until v22)
* Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Joachim Wiedorn (since v23)
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software
distributed under the BSD License (3-clause). Details can be found in
the file COPYING, which is distributed with this software.
Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb2
Warning: /dev/sdb2 is not on the first disk
Warning: Device 0x0810: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry
CHS address in PT: 16:97:34 --> LBA (248064)
LBA address in PT: 16779264 --> CHS (1109:177:34)
Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified
If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)
bash-5.0# lilo -u /dev/sdb2
Warning: /dev/sdb2 is not on the first disk
Fatal: Boot sector of /dev/sdb2 does not have a boot signature
bash-5.0#Pl. guide how to remove this LILO from /sdb2 and configure dual boot properly