LILO

[Price, Erik]

Hi,

On my work computer (which currently has one drive for Win2k and another drive for Debian3.0), I had at one time installed SuSE Linux.  I later wrote Debian3.0 over the SuSE Linux install, but forgot that I had installed LILO from SuSE.  I boot into Debian by using a boot disk.

When the computer boots up, if I don't have the Debian boot disk in the floppy drive, the SuSE LILO choice comes up, and if I forget to choose Windows, it tries to boot the SuSE distro.  I guess the Debian install never overwrote the vmlinuz file pointed to by the SuSE LILO.  (It is definitely booting the SuSE distro b/c the Debian boot output is very different from the SuSE boot output and when the prompt comes up, it's the old name for the computer when I had SuSE on it, not the new one that I gave the machine when I installed Debian).

So my question is this -- if I use apt-get to install LILO from Debian, will it overwrite the LILO that's already there from SuSE?  Safely?  I'd like to kill a few birds with one stone --

1) No longer use a boot disk to boot into Debian
2) Set the system to boot Windows by default
3) Get rid of the SuSE LILO screen and the inadvertent boot into the SuSE distro

I would assume that I could do this by installing LILO from Debian.  Ideally it will overwrite the LILO that was installed by SuSE, and then I can run the LILO commands to change the defaults.  But I thought I'd run it by the list first, so I don't screw anything up.

Thanks,


Erik