[aclug-L] Re: LILO trouble

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nathan & Jenny wrote:

> Saturday's NETWorkshop was great!  Thank you Jon Hall and everyone else who 
> helped make it happen.  I learned a lot, and I'm really glad I went.
> 
> I borrowed a laptop and got permission to install LINUX for the 
> NETWorkshop.  But now I'm having trouble restoring the hard drive back to 
> its original state.  LILO won't go away completely.  After the restoration 
> of the hard drive's Win95 image, I can read everything in the FAT fine, 
> providing I boot from a floppy.  If I try to boot from the hard drive, I 
> get the following:
> 
> LI
> 
> and then the system hangs.
> 
> This is actually making progress.  I used to get:
> 
> LIL
> 
> and then the system would hang.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to completely get rid of LILO?

        Try booting from a formatted MSDOS diskette with the fdisk program
on the diskette.  Type:

fdisk/mbr

This will normally wipe out lilo.

                                Tom Wallis
> 
> Nate Cozzens
> 

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