Last night in my aborted attempts to reinstall 6.4, Lilo mistakenly got installed in the boot sector of my Windoze hard drive. How do I get it out of there? TIA, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
In a DOs prompt type: fdisk /mbr Places the MBR back to what Windows understands. Matt On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Cleary, Mike wrote:
Last night in my aborted attempts to reinstall 6.4, Lilo mistakenly got installed in the boot sector of my Windoze hard drive. How do I get it out of there?
TIA,
Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"Cleary, Mike" wrote:
Last night in my aborted attempts to reinstall 6.4, Lilo mistakenly got installed in the boot sector of my Windoze hard drive. How do I get it out of there?
Just boot off your Windows CD or floppy, quit to the command prompt and type "format /mbr". (minus the quotes) Dana -- Linux / OpenBSD - Ain't life grand! :)
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