removing lilo boot

Turner

Oh heres the story...

Installed red hat 7.2 on a seperate hd. Using lilo i get the option when i turn on the comp to load linux or dos.

The problem is that the second hard disk i installed linux on is fupped. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt so im left with just a blank ms-dos screen with a L in the top left corner...

What i want to do is remove the lilo boot loader from my C:\ drive (hd1) and just throw out the other hard disk and forget about linux altogether

(is it just a case of deleting the lilo file wherever it is on my c:\ drive)

you see if i take out the borked hd it says invalid boot disk and goes no further.

I cant turn my comp off until i get this sorted...

btw im running running win xp pro.

help help help...

Chief (linux n00b btw)

(sorry to anyone i was speaking to on sat night. v v v drunk.)

seamus

Yes you pratt

I'm assuming it will (sometimes) boot into Windoze for ya. All you do then is go to the command prompt and type fdisk /mbr and all should be hunky dory. OK? You think you can manage that?

Turner

thats no way to talk to a work colleague.

im gonna piss in your locker in work

Tks anyway

Chief,

Turner

c:\>fdisk /mbr

gave me

'fdisk is not recognaized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Chief.

Renton

:rolleyes: No wonder he's getting rid of linux , You'll find Fdisk on any 9x installation in c:\windows\command

Renton

Turner

Ok i downloaded Fdisk and it refuses to work with windows xp..

How about using this way..
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/troubleshooting/pc/ls/022102.asp


or would i have the same prob cause the boot loader would be on my c:\ drive.

Chief.

flamegrill

if you can boot ur redhat system at all. do the following.

lilo -u /dev/hda where hda is the primary disk where the lilo is contained in the mbr.

note: this will no be a partition like /dev/hda3 it will be the device name only.

Regards,

Paul

P3nfold

Don't even know why you would want to get rid of linux
But what flamegrill just said is fine, if you wish to remove the lilo master boot record from your hard drive, just put in a windows boot disk and use fdisk to change the mbr like what seamus just said, but reallly, you should just format c: and burn your XP disk, through it in a locked container and then hide it in the next space shuttle to leave planet earth. Then reinstall linux

Or the next time you could just kee your lilo record on a floppy, this was you won't have to worry about overwriting your current mbr and messing it up.

Anyways best of luck, im off for din dins

Turner

ok lads...
used a ms-dos 6.0 installation disk to boot up comp, exit setup to get a

a:>

typed fdisk /mbr

to get a

a:>

rebooted everything perfect..

So cheers everyone

(seamus sorry but i still pissed in your locker)



Chief.