Re: How can I clean up my boot sector?

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From: Manfred Bartz
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:00

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Rob Ward wrote:
> 
> I have installed the really good LILO on my boot sector on the
> C: drive and I would now like to take it off and reformat the
> drive.  I have serched the RedHat and Slackware style CD distributions
> but can't find how to do it.  Any assistance would be appreciated.

The LILO documentation (/usr/doc/lilo ?) covers this in chapter 4.4, but
you may have to run it thru TeX first....

In short, LILO 0.14 and newer can be de-installed with "lilo -u".

If LILO uses the MBR (Master Boot Record), it needs to be replaced by a
'standard' MBR.  The DOS MBR can be restored with "FDISK /MBR". 
Nonetheless, playing with boot sectors can render your data inaccessable
- you do have full backups, don't you?

This advice is completely free and therefore comes completely without
warranty of any kind ;-)

Regards

Manfred (mbartz@werple.net.au)

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From: Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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