Re: [TCLUG:1756] LILO, fdisk, and other OSes

[Jeffrey R Haskovec <hask0025@tc.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Carlos Sabo wrote:

> I regret to say that I'm putting NT back on my home machine.  :( When I
> can afford another box, I'll put Linux on it.  It's been fun but for now I
> need to write MS Word documents and track my finances. 

sorry to hear that.

> 
> So, I hope my question isn't too far off topic. 
> 
> I'm having trouble fdisking my hard drive.  I had Linux partitions and
> LILO on it.  With the DOS 6 version of the utilities I created a new
> partition with fdisk, made it active, and formatted it with the switch to
> copy system files onto the drive.  When I boot I see "LI" which from
> previous experience I know to mean that LILO is choking. 
> 
> Actualy, I downloaded a DOS based shareware partition wiper and used that
> because DOS fdisk couldn't handle seeing strange partitions.  Then I used
> DOS fdisk which may not have been necissary at that point.
> 
> My question is how do I remove LILO with DOS utilities?

fdisk /mbr

Jeff