From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) Subject: Re: remove LILO? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:15:40 GMT
In article <620@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM>
seang@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM (Sean Gordon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.093342.24069@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
>>I am going to have a new 200mb IDE drive next week and my old 105mb IDE
>>will be in my wife's PC. I had installed LILO before I saw the backup
>>MBR caution in the LILO documentation. I am 99% sure that LILO had taken
>>over DOS MBR. Is the only way to remove LILO and Linux from my old IDE
>>to destroy all partitions setup (including my DOS partition)?
>
>If LILO has over written the MBR, the best way to remove it is to use
>an undocumented (in any book I've seen anyway) feature of fdisk.
>type FDISK /MBR.
>I had the same problem a couple of months ago and this fixed it.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Sean Gordon
Note: the /MBR switch to fdisk is in MSDOS versions 3.31 and
5.0 that I know of. It is NOT in version 4.01.
-- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.