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From: Thomas McKearney
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <315BAC0F.41C6@amsta.leeds.ac.uk>,
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.

I believe that fdisk /mbr will do it.  (Master Boot Record)
Though I have never tried this myself, I have seen many posts about this
in the past, and this seems to have been the solution.

tom

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From: tom@tmckearn.smart.net (Thomas McKearney)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling LILO...
Date: 1996/04/01
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