From: Soeren Aldenryd (soj@iesd.auc.dk)
Date: 08/02/93


From: soj@iesd.auc.dk (Soeren Aldenryd)
Subject: Re: Massive lilo foobar
Date: 2 Aug 1993 12:34:50


In article <1993Jul28.181620.7367@colorado.edu> toddm@csn.org (Todd Main) writes:

   Well, I really did it this time. I ran /etc/lilo/install to boot my
   hard drive from the linux partition. Later, I decided that it wasn't such
   ...
   So, now my dos disk has a linux (lilo) boot sector in it instead of
   dos. Is there any creative way to fix this series of idiotic choices
   short of "a:\FORMAT C: \S" ? I now want only to boot dos from my hard
   drive and boot linux from floppy!

Answer: You could use the dos fdisk utility to create a new boot record

C:>fdisk /mbr

That did it on my harddisk!

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