[GLLUG] Removing Lillo changes to MBR

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:38, after a long battle with 
technology, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > Is it possible to restore the MBR to how it was before Lillo was
> > installed?
>
> Yes, from a DOS prompt (boot floppy, whatever):
>
>   fdisk /mbr

FDISK /MBR , surely?  (fdisk != FDISK.EXE.)

This is not a silver bullet, of course.  Best thing to do would be "lilo 
-u" , since LILO (not "lillo") keeps a backup of the original boot 
sector, which you can reinstall with -u.  Cthulhu only knows what this 
Roxio thing has done to the MBR, and a standard DOS MBR might not even 
do the right thing (it probably will though.)

The hard part may be getting a real DOS bootdisk, since no 'Doze after 
ME actually includes support for creating one.  
http://www.bootdisk.com/ may help in that case.  

>> For some reason, my boot disk does not work, (it never has from the 
>> beginning). If I have to get into linux?

?  How did you install Linux, then?  Every distro CD is bootable; some 
of them (not Redhat's) can even be used as reasonably good rescue 
systems.  I keep a Gentoo Live CD and a Tom's RootBoot floppy around 
just in case, since these contain enough tools to fix most problems on 
an x86.

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