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From: Steven Clarke
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:00

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F Olier (amtfo@amsta.leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
: A few weeks ago I installed Linux on my 386 to see what it was like,
: but because my PC has only 4Mb I decided to go back to DOS. I did not
: uninstall LILO before reformatting my hard disk. Since then when I boot
: my computer, it boots via LILO and crashes. The only way I found is to
: boot via a floppy disk. I did try to re-format the partition but it does
: not seem to work.

: Is there anybody out there who would know how to get rid off LILO ?
: Something to format ALL the tracks of the hard disk would probably do
: the job, but I don't have such software.

A low-level format that writes all the tracks would be a very bad idea.
Instead boot into DOS and run fdisk with the /MBR option to rewrite the
master boot record. Read the manual so you know what fdisk does first
though as its a powerful tool.

Steve Clarke

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From: kebl0071@sable.ox.ac.uk (Steven Clarke)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling LILO...
Date: 1996/03/29
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