From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) Subject: [SUMMARY] How to get rid of LILO? Date: 14 Apr 1993 10:38:27 GMT
Hello!
First of all, I wish to express my gratitude to all who responded to my
queries. My mailbox has been literally overflowing with answers. The
response was so overwhelming I must apologize for not being able to
personally thank each of you via private e-mail.
My question was simple: After removing Linux from my hard drive, and
formatting my drive, I was quite surprised to see LILO still prompting me
to enter the boot partition. I wanted to know how I could get rid of
that boot message and use the standard DOS one instead.
Using 'FDISK /MBR', the master boot record on the hard drive will be
replaced with one specific to DOS. No data is lost whatsoever.
Surprisingly, a number of you did not believe 'Enter boot partition
(1-4)' was a LILO prompt. I am using TAMU Linux .99p4 and perhaps LILO
has been patched with this revision to make it easier on the user, but
yes, this is definitely a LILO (or at least a Linux) message.
Thanks again!
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