From: Mark Cosham (cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 07/01/93


From: cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
Subject: Re: i want lilo dead and buried
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 04:45:37 GMT

In <20tlcmINNnfq@lynx.unm.edu> cybernix@triton.unm.edu (cybernix) writes:

>lilo is a great program, and served its purpose well, however, something
>came up, and i had to fry linux temporarily for a DOS project (that
>needs some disk space). i don't want lilo here anymore, but re
>partitioning, and formatting didn't get rid of it. I have Norton
>Disk Editor if it is a help (for changing whatever needs to be changed).
>I already nuked linux, but i still have the boot floppy (which has
>the lilo executable on it)...

>please help!

>cybernix@triton.unm.edu

This one's easy - just boot DOS, and run FDISK /MBR
This simply re-writes the master boot record, which is not affected by
anything but a low-level format.

Mark Cosham

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