lilo deletion
I currently work in dual boot mode (win xp + linux mandrake 8.0)
Lilo takes care of that by being installed in the primary master hard disk mbr under previous windows, to delete lilo, i booted with a floppy and typed fdisk/mbr at the prompt to reestablish the boot sector to dos (windows) only. how can i do this with win xp installed, the only boot disk xp offers is not "bundled" with any fdisk version, nor is fdisk to be found on the installation cd. can i use a boot disk from win98 or win me? because for some strange reason, ma pc won't boot from the 6 bootdisks (floppies). is there another utility software provided on the cd? :confused: |
You shouldn't have any problems booting to a win98 disk and typing fdisk /MBR from there..
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thanks
i will try this and let you know :study: |
The original boot sector is stored by lilo in /boot
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okay
lilo stores the original boot sector in / boot how do i recover it? |
i think by making a bootdisk
use mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.x where dev/fd0 is your a-drive (dos/windows) and the exact kernel no 2.4.x do uname -r after booting from that run lilo and the mbr should be controlled by lilo again ( /sbin/lilo ) oh and by running lilo -u it uninstalls itself from your mbr man lilo for details |
I'm not sure but I think it is /sbin/lilo -u. If I'm wrong it may really screw things up so you may want to double-check it
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