Re: [ILUG] removing lilo

From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Wed 31 Jul 2002 - 18:32:33 IST


On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:40:26PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Liam Bedford thought:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:30:01 +0100
> jac1 claiming to think:
>
> > hi,
> > i recently had to wipe linux from my pc but forgot to restore the original
> > MBR (NT). Anyone know how i can do this? linux is entirely gone and no boot
> > floppy. formatting the entire disk doesn't do it either.
> >
> boot from dos and fdisk /mbr?
> boot from an NT CD, choose repair, and make it check the mbr
                             ^^^^^^

Nice how NT "repair"s a hard disk by removing other OSs. Could we call it
that on Linux install disks too?

Conor

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