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  From: Nick Morrison <nickelodeon@heaps.fully.cx>
  To  : Don Collins" <doncol@mail.mdt.net.au>, <doncol@mail.mdt.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:15:30 +0930

RE: Biiiig LILO problems....

> OOOPS!!!!
>
> That'll teach me for reading too quickly.  Sorry guys... didn't
> see the NT4 bit.
> Maybe you could add another drive, install Linux on it and if you
> still want to
> remove it THEN try /sbin/lilo -u.  hehehehehe

I don't think that will work anyway - lilo -u just replaces the current
lilo-ridden boot sector with the -backup- boot sector that it took upon
original install.  And that won't have the NT5 boot-loader in it ;)

The only way you're going to be able to fix this is to get NT5 to rewrite
the bootloader..

My suggestion?  Run fdisk /mbr on the NT5 disk..   force the PC to boot from
that hard disk with the BIOS..  then ask NT5 to rewrite the bootloader.

*laughing*  if there's a way to get NT5 to do that :D

Unless, of course, the bootloader is needed to boot..   then it all depends
on where the bootloader is stored, I guess, and that's where my knowledge
runs out of steam.  Like when you erase lilo's ext2 partition and the
remaining lilo code - the bit in the boot sector - just says "LI".  Is the
entire NT5 bootloader in the boot sector??  If it's not - fdisk /mbr should
be ok.

But I don't like NT[1-5] so I don't care ;p

Good luck..  *grin*

__
Nick Morrison
nickelodeon@heaps.fully.cx
http://www.fully.cx/


> Mark Williams wrote:
>
> > Hi guys...
> >
> > I have a bit of a problem with LILO.
> > A ehile ago i moved the hdd containing linux out of the machine
> (and removed
> > linux from it).
> > Unfortunatly i forgot to unsinstall LILO on the computer, and
> now when i boot
> > i just get "LI".
> > At the moment the comp is only running win2k which is how its
> going to stay.
> >
> > How do i remove LILO from the MBR?
> > I know i can do a "fdisk /mbr" in msdos but im not too sure if
> that will work
> > too well with win2k which uses the NT4 boot loader.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas???
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  Mark Williams
> >
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