From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) Subject: Re: How do I kill LILO? Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 06:10:01 GMT
In article <1993May6.143642.16123@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
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>ARgggghhh...
>
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>Whats LILO done to my HD? I can't stop it from coming up all the time, even
>though I change boot partitions, my HD ignores me and starts up LILO, then boot
>linux.
>
As is said in all the documents, LILO installs itself to your master boot
record. Also, LILO makes a backup of the original boot record to
/etc/lilo/lilo/boot.????. (Sorry, I don't know a thing about OS/2, so I can't
tell any specifics for it.)
To get the MBR back in place, you could've done
dd if=/etc/lilo/lilo/boot.???? of=/dev/sda
but since, as you said, you've deleted your Linux partn, this won't work.
To get a standard MS-DOS MBR to your disk, boot to DOS with a diskette,
then say 'FDISK /MBR'. I don't know if OS/2 uses the std DOS MBR, but
it's not impossible, as DOS MBRs always try to boot from the active partition.
..Wolf