From: huber@nibelung.Worms.Fh-Rpl.DE (Frank Huber ) Subject: Re: i want lilo dead and buried Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1993 13:54:51 GMT
In article <211tl7$j5r@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, jhh@scss3.cl.msu.edu.noname (John Hayes) 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
|>
|> >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
|>
May be you saved the mbr before installing Linux. Then simply put it back with
dd if=mbr.saved of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
When I first installed LILO, I had an unusable hard disk afterwards. The mbr was
damaged, but not enough to cause any repair/format/partitioning program to
overwrite it with a new one. The following "clean up" helped:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Frank