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- From: benj@s-link.escape.de (Benjamin Harling)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: remove LILO?
- Message-ID: <4u_ttKTz55@s-link.escape.de>
- Organization: -S-LINK-> Public Mailbox, Braunschweig, Germany
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:00:00 +0100
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- CHCHEN%STAT@S-UUCP.ZER meinte am 23.01.93
- zum Thema "remove LILO?":
-
- > From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
- > Subject: remove LILO?
- > Message-ID: <1993Jan23.093342.24069@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- > Organization: Florida State University
- >
- > 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)?
-
- My Coherent manual says that if you changed the MBR and did not backup the
- original, one way to work around is to destroy the MBR, either with the
- program which wrote it or with some kind of tool (Norton Utilities or likes or
- with the DIAGNOSTICS menu of the AMI BIOS) and have it rebuild by DOS fdisk.
- You just have to overwrite the last two bytes. If no valid signature appears
- at the end of the current contents of the Master-Boot-Block, DOS fdisk will
- write a new one. But there is no guarantee that fdisk will actually do so.
- Their experience is that you shouldn't expect any data to be available after
- fdisk rewrites an invalid MBR, even if previously existing DOS partitions
- are re-allocated with identical cylinder ranges as at the time of their
- initial creation. So backup your stuff.
- The other way is to overwrite it with an MBR from another OS, which might
- work with the OS/2 BootManager.
-
-
- Gruss Benjamin
-
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