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Old 02-20-2008, 08:58 AM
Douglas Mayne
 
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Default Re: Slackware problem

On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:45:45 -0700, Mr. Boy wrote:

> Rick Slackware does not use GRUB it uses Lilo....
>
> you might want to boot your box with a slackware CD, and then hit lilo
> -u to uninstall it from the master boot record ...
>

It /* can */ use grub. Grub is in the extra packages set:
http://www.slackware.at/data/slackware-10.1/extra/grub/

Your definitive statement makes it sound like slackware depends
exclusively on lilo. The bootstrap can be controlled by a variety
of bootloaders, including grub.

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