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Hi Everyone, I decided to kill a suse 9.3 pro install on a pc yesterday, and try out slackware 10.2. It went like this: boot with install disk log in to root fdisk /dev/hda deleted the partitions created a swap partition, double my ram, type 82(or was it 83...nomatter, thats all ok) created the / partition ran setup chugged through the install rebooted got an Error 13 loading Grub. It seems it had loaded the boot loader (lilo) on to the boot partition (2) which would have worked fine, had grub not been present on the MBR. I solved it quickly by booting with the cd, logging to root and running setup/configure and choosing to install lilo on the MBR, overwriting the Grub loader. I'd assumed that killing the partitions would have killed the MBR, I can see now why thats not the case, but was wondering if anyone knew of a way to control the contents of the MBR for future reference so that I can kill an old grub install if I want to boot from a lilo install on a boot partition? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html