Removing LILO

[Sean]

Did your friend ever get it installed? that looks vaguely like the error
you get when you have some-thing like EZ-Drive installed which needs to be
removed before the Linux install. 



On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, John R. Gargett wrote:

> Ever have one of those days????
> 
> Thanks Adam!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> > From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:17:02 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: "John R. Gargett" <jgargett@lsj.com>
> > Cc: Linux <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
> > Subject: Re: Removing LILO
> > 
> > fdisk /mbr  perhaps?
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, John R. Gargett wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi all!
> >> 
> >> I have a friend that installed Redhat 6.1 on his machine (a Gateway) a while
> >> ago. He would like to remove the linux and install a different OS that shall
> >> remain nameless. The problem that he is having is that apparently LILO is
> >> installed in the boot sector since he gets to the boot and gets a LIL-
> >> prompt. The disk has been formatted and sysed.
> >> 
> >> Is there a simple way to get rid of this from DOS? I remember a similar
> >> query a while ago, but I can't find a reference to it in my "archives" of
> >> the list.
> >> 
> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Sincerely,
> >> 
> >> John
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
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