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From: Liam Bedford <lbedford@lbedford.org>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: removing lilo
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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.

L.
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