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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: remove LILO?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.191540.22257@netcom.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:15:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1993Jan27.191540.22257
- References: <1993Jan23.093342.24069@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
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- In article <620@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM>
- seang@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM (Sean Gordon) writes:
- >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
-
- Note: the /MBR switch to fdisk is in MSDOS versions 3.31 and
- 5.0 that I know of. It is NOT in version 4.01.
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