[aclug-L] Re: Sick Computer...

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have installed Windows on machines with LILO installed.  Windows doesn't
care.  It just overwrites LILO.

More likely the problem is that Window sees your Linux partitions and thinks
they're compressed partitions.

To answer your question on how to remove LILO, though... just run "fdisk
/mbr" (that's DOS's fdisk)


On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:47:15PM -0600, Burt Humburg wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. My stupid Windoze box just died, but it's a software thing and
> I think I can recover...
> 
> ...the problem is that in order for Windows 98 to get off its ass and
> install itself, I have to remove the bootloader LILO that now occupies the
> master boot record (or something). (Specifically, the warning was that the
> Windoze installer wouldn't work on a drive that was compressed, etc. Remove
> the compression and try again.)
> 
> Can someone brief me on how to remove LILO such that my bootability is as it
> was before Linux was installed?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> BCH
> 
> 
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