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Subject: [ILUG] Re: removing lilo
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Liam Bedford stated the following:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:48:16 -0600 SoloCDM claiming to think:
> 
> > "Hunt, Bryan" stated the following:
> 
> >> you need to do a "fdisk /mbr" from a bootable windoze floppy
> >> alternatively boot from linux boot disk and do fdisk, delete all
> >> partitions.
> 
> > I need to ask a question concerning this issue.
> 
> > What if I don't want to get rid of the MBR -- it will destroy the
> > OS on that drive.  How do I remove lilo without the above fdisk
> > procedure?
> 
> fdisk /mbr will restore a dos MBR.. it'll leave the partitions alone.
> 
> linux fdisk and deleting all partitions will actually leave LILO in
> the MBR though.

While I am in Linux, the following message is the output when I
execute fdisk /mbr, even though the drive is in read and write mode:

Unable to open /mbr

The mbr is on a separate drive -- not related to the Linux drive.

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