From: root@falcon.DIALix.oz.au (Darren Gilchrist) Subject: Re: i want lilo dead and buried Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 01:52:34 GMT
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)...
fdisk /mbr (from DOS :-)) Should nuke lilo...
This cleans up the master boot record, but keeps the partition information.
I Had a problem when LILO became corrupted (somehow) and the above command
cleaned the MBR to sane values.
(You've probably had a million messages of the same ilk, but hope I could help)
Darren...
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