Problem one to be expected is ” I cannot Boot Linux Anymore”. It seems that you have successfully installed the Linux distro of your choice. Then one fine day you may a change to your Windows OS- Windows 09 , XP or Vista / System 7/ Suddenly Linux no longer seems to boot and indeed stops working. You no longer see the lilo boot prompt. so you can no longer specify that indeed you wan to boot Linux.

What to do ? It seems that various operating systems tend to think that they are the only ones in the universe. It not unlike media centers in Windows that when newly installed take over and make themselves l”King” the “default” setup.

Therefore when the new Operating System is installed they write things to the area of the system or specifically the hard drive – or now sometimes solid state “hard drives”, called the Master Boot Record (MBR). This process overlays and overwrites the basic Linux boot loader (called LILO) and stops you dead in your tracks from booting Linux.

Overall the best correction is a good prevention . Make an emergency floppy or usb stick as a boot disk.

Keep this handy, when you do update or change your system ( or during any other significant event in your “Linux career” , such as repartitioning your disks or rebuilding your kernel.

Thus if you make a mistake then you can boot with your boot device – be it floppy or usb stick , or cd / dvd.

Its not unlike safe mode in Windows.

Then when you have rebooted your system using your boot device , simply log on as “root”, then type LILO on the command line. This will repair the MBR ( Master Boot Record) reinstalling Lilo.

You are now off to the races !!!

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Mac OS 10 is primarily UNIX , rock solid with a Graphics User Interface – GUI. Linux in turn is based on this initial very powerful , very solid computer operating system. Linux is Unix for the Mac.

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Macs previously used Motorola based chip sets and processors. Macs now are Intel based – that is they use standard PC type components.

The question that begs then is why bother with the flavors of Linux and not simply use the Mac current OS X based computers.

This is a very good question and should merit introspection and focus by novice computer ( or beginner Linux users ) wanted to learn the Linux or Unix based computer operating systems either for its power and features or as option to the mainstream Microsoft windows and vista systems.

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