On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:37, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > So on my single disk non raid system... with fc2 installed > because od -c /boot/boot.b | head -1 reports back > 0000000 353 H 220 l b a L I L O 001 \0 025 004 Z \0 > > that means i really have lilo in my mbr and that its chainloading into grub? It says nothing about your MBR. > Really? This disk has been used to do fresh installs of red hat from > rhl 6.2 all the way through fc2 now. But I'm really actually still > using lilo? And its chainbooting grub? > Really? /boot/boot.b is the Lilo original and /boot/grub/stage1 is the Grub original. They're both munged a bit during install. Compare the originals with your boot drive MBR as explained previously, e.g. # od -c /dev/hde | head -1 0000000 ú ë | l b a L I L O 001 \0 025 004 Z \0 --Mike Bird