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- From: seang@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM (Sean Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: remove LILO?
- Message-ID: <620@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:40:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.093342.24069@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Reply-To: seang@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM (Sean Gordon)
- Organization: NCR E&M Dundee
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- In article <1993Jan23.093342.24069@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
- >I am going to have a new 200mb IDE drive next week and my old 105mb IDE
- >will be in my wife's PC. I had installed LILO before I saw the backup
- >MBR caution in the LILO documentation. I am 99% sure that LILO had taken
- >over DOS MBR. Is the only way to remove LILO and Linux from my old IDE
- >to destroy all partitions setup (including my DOS partition)?
-
- If LILO has over written the MBR, the best way to remove it is to use
- an undocumented (in any book I've seen anyway) feature of fdisk.
- type FDISK /MBR.
- I had the same problem a couple of months ago and this fixed it.
-
- Hope this helps
-
- Sean Gordon
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