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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:54:30 +0900

Re: Biiiig LILO problems....

At 05:04 AM 16/9/99 GMT, you 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.

The NT4 boot loader uses FAT16.  fdisk /mbr works for me :-)
PS Q. Has Win2k overcome the NT4 situation, where NT is installed on a
FAT16 partition, the remainder of the drive being partitioned in FAT16 or
NTFS?  I had heard that Win2k could also RW FAT32.
However, as I am most happy with NT4 SP4 as a temporary measure, and intend
to covert to Linux over time, maybe the Q  is of academic interest only.

Brian
Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education

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