{"id":141,"date":"2004-08-20T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-reactivate-bootit-bm-after-lilo-is-installed-to-the-mbr\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:36:45","slug":"how-to-reactivate-bootit-bm-after-lilo-is-installed-to-the-mbr","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-reactivate-bootit-bm-after-lilo-is-installed-to-the-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reactivate BootIt BM After LILO is Installed to the MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If LILO is installed to the MBR, BootIt&nbsp;BM will no longer boot.&nbsp; If you want to reactivate BootIt BM and keep the existing&nbsp;Linux installation without having to install LILO to the root partition (as explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a>), then you will need to proceed using one of the following methods:<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>Boot to your BootIt BM Setup media.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Choose the <strong>Reactivate BootIt Bare Metal<\/strong> option, and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n  <p><em>- OR -<\/em><\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>Boot to your BootIt BM Setup media.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Choose <strong>Capture MBR<\/strong> from the Installation &amp; Recovery Boot Menu that appears, and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Provide a name such as &quot;Linux&quot;, and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n    <li>A message is displayed that indicates success or failure.&nbsp; Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to close the message.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Choose <strong>Reactivate BootIt Bare Metal<\/strong> on the&nbsp;Installation &amp; Recovery Boot Menu, and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Remove the Setup media and click <strong>OK<\/strong> to reboot.<\/li>\r\n    <li>You will now need to use the MBR file you created.&nbsp;&nbsp;Click the <strong>Maintenance<\/strong> button on the BootIt BM boot menu.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Click <strong>Boot Edit<\/strong> on the BootIt BM desktop.<\/li>\r\n    <li>Create\/Edit the Linux boot item, and assign the MBR file to it. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n  <p>Because the Linux partition was never initialized to boot, it appears as unbootable to BootIt BM.&nbsp; Therefore, you will need to change the boot partition to some other partition which&nbsp;<em>is<\/em> bootable.&nbsp; The MBR file will override booting from that partition, but that partition will be visible when booting the item.&nbsp; If that is a problem, then follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these instructions<\/a> on installing LILO to the root partition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If LILO is installed to the MBR, BootIt&nbsp;BM will no longer boot.&nbsp; If you want to reactivate BootIt BM and keep the existing&nbsp;Linux installation without having to install LILO to the root partition (as explained in this article), then you will need to proceed using one of the following methods: Boot to your BootIt BM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1783],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2128],"class_list":["post-141","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-linux","lsvr_kba_tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/141\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}