From: einstein@uni-paderborn.de (Joerg Delker) Subject: Re: How to get rid of LILO? Date: 13 Apr 1993 07:51:38 GMT
In article <HPDX2B1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>, frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca(Steve Frampton) writes:
|> Hello:
|>
|> I wish to move a 213MB IDE drive from my 80386 to my 80286. I completely
|> got rid of Linux [don't worry, I'm going to install it again :-) ] by
|> wiping out the partition information and reformatting the drive, complete
|> with MS-DOS system boot information. I then install DOS along with all
|> the software I want to put on the 80286.
|>
|> Trouble is -- when I boot up the freshly reformatted drive to make sure
|> everything was kosher, I discovered, "Enter boot partition (1-4)? [1]"
|> (or words to that effect). It seems LILO is still alive and kicking.
|> Is there a way to get rid of LILO? I tried UNFORMAT /PARTN but of course
|> not having a partition backup, this won't work for me. :-)
That's a hard one... ;-) I had the same problem, too.
The problem is, that DOS doesn't wipe the whole bootsector, but only the partition table.
I have done a fdisk-format-run with my old DOS 3.30.
This one deletes the entire bootsector.
Some harddisk-utilities do you the same favor.