From: jhh@scss3.cl.msu.edu.noname (John Hayes) Subject: Re: i want lilo dead and buried Date: 2 Jul 1993 18:09:43 GMT
>>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
>I read the FAQ for you :-) : run Dos' fdisk /MBR !
We tried fdisk /mbr with dos 5.0 ( dos typically isn't case sensitive ) and this did not work. We finally ran setup ( or whatever ) from the msdos 5.0 distribution disks and did a new install. This did the trick. Much better than a low lever format -which is not recommended ( and hard to find software to do ) on an ide drive.
If anybody knows of another way, pass it along.
Thanks, John Hayes