From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) Subject: Re: How to get rid of LILO? Date: 13 Apr 1993 12:41:21 GMT
Steve Frampton <frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> writes:
> 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. :-)
The answer is to use the /mbr flag of the FDISK program. Thanks to all
who responded.
Another final question -- if I do this, will I lose the data on my hard
drive, or is this specific to the master boot record. I'd hate to have
to move all 150+ MB of stuff off the drive before doing the fix.
Thanks again.
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