[aclug-L] Re: Removing LILO...How do I do it?

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > 
> > The Athlon has been out for several months already...
> > 
> > The way to remove LILO is to run "lilo -u" *or* from DOS/Windows, run "fdsik
> > /mbr"
> > 
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:33:50AM -0600, Patrick R. Klee wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering, I want to put Windows NT on my P120 and Linux on my AMD
> > > Athelon when the chip comes out.  My question is: How do I remove lilo to
> > > put NT on the second drive?  I formatted the second drive on NT, but I
> > > still get the LILO prompt, I need to remove LILO, but how?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Patrick
> > >
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> kinda OT, but i tried fdisk /mbr under dos once, and it just crashed my
> computer, really sucked.
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you have to put something back.  If you just do  a /mbr, there is nothing to
tell the computer where to boot!  It just cleans off the master boot record
blank and there is nothing to boot the computer.


Michael A. Holmes

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