topic Re: How could i remove lilo and boot the pc? in Operating System - Linux

How could i remove lilo and boot the pc?

whepin — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 04:57:27 GMT

I have two sys.I installed win98 first and bootmagic,then i installed linux too(lilo also),so i have two boot tools,first bootmagic,then lilo,Imagin how uninterested!Please tell me how could i remove lilo and boot the pc with bootmagic only?Thanks!

Re: How could i remove lilo and boot the pc?

Francisco J. Soler — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:11:50 GMT

If lilo has been installed in MBR you could clean the MBR with fdisk utility from windows.
fdisk /MBR cleans the master boot record and lilo disappears.

Frank.

Re: How could i remove lilo and boot the pc?

Jairo Campana — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:19:12 GMT

be careful to do fdisk /mbr
it surely of which lilo this in mbr and no bootmagic

other option is to update linux and to say to him that it does not install en master boot record , install in /dev/hda o partition where this installed linux
or no install lilo after this reeboot.
it does not modify partitions nor it installs packetes , not modify configurations

Re: How could i remove lilo and boot the pc?

Eric Coryell — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:57:30 GMT

I've never been very successful with fdisk, mostly because I can't find fdisk on the MS OS. I've had better luck with uninstalling lilo from linux. (lilo -u). This will uninstall lilo and copy the original boot record back. Before you try it, you might want to duplicate the original boot record though. Refer to 'man lilo' for filenames.