My son installed Linux on his second drive (2GB) which he now wants to replace with a new drive (80 GB). Main drive is win2K which doesn't allow the old "fdisk /mbr" trick to remove lilo. Does anyone on this list know how to do it with win2K? tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
The 02.10.13 at 19:56, David Johanson wrote:
My son installed Linux on his second drive (2GB) which he now wants to replace with a new drive (80 GB). Main drive is win2K which doesn't allow the old "fdisk /mbr" trick to remove lilo. Does anyone on this list know how to do it with win2K?
I think the lilo docs include instrucctions on uninstall. Also, you will find a copy of the mbr (and any other lilo modifies) in /boot, as files with names like "boot.0200". It can be restored with the dd program, but I'd hate to write here the exact command as I could do it wrong O:-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
David Johanson wrote:
My son installed Linux on his second drive (2GB) which he now wants to replace with a new drive (80 GB). Main drive is win2K which doesn't allow the old "fdisk /mbr" trick to remove lilo. Does anyone on this list know how to do it with win2K?
tia,
dave
# lilo -u might work, especially if you have only ever installed lilo once. Create a boot floppy to try this. Otherwise, you could always reduce lilo rather than remove it. For example, you might pu lilo.conf as == boot = /dev/hda change-rules reset other = /dev/hda1 label = windows == or something like it, so that all lilo does is boot windows without prompting. Check your own configuration for what you need to do this. Probably there's something in win2k to create a new boot sector too... JDL
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