I want to kill LILO off my CF card. All my other CF cards, I could just fdisk and delete the partitions on /dev/sda1. This one doesn't seem to work, I will fdisk, delete all partitions, and it will still boot into LILO. I try installing syslinux after deleting all partitions, and it still boots to LILO.

LILO isn't installed on my copy of linux, so i can't lilo -u /dev/sda1. I don't want to install LILO on my machine.

Thanks in advance.

Try something like:
- that sould wipe MBR and partition table.

Lilo probably lives in the MBR, not in any of your partitions.


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks Tinkster. I tried what you suggested and it's still booting LILO. The command seems to have worked right, i get the 1+0 records in/out, 512 bytes copied statement, and fdisk has no partitions, but when i boot of the CF card, LILO still tries to load a kernel.

Hmmm ... it's not something silly like it's actually accidentally booting
of a DIFFERENT device?


Cheers,
Tink

No, it's the only device. I used some tools that came with syslinux, like mkdiskimage and cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda. This all seemed to get LILO to stop booting, and then I was able to install syslinux. Never had this trouble before. I noticed things worked better when I screwed with /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1. From what I understand, /dev/sda1 is just the first partition on /dev/sda. So would LILO hav enever been in /dev/sda1, and I should have done
to get the MBR? Or am I completely misunderstanding /dev/sda & /dev/sda1? Sorry, this may be kind of a newbie question.