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tom@tmckearn.smart.net (Thomas McKearney) wrote:

>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

  The FDISK /MBR works!  I just did this as well and it worked great!
I found this info on the LILO FAQ too.




Tom Birkenbach
t_m_birk@macatawa.org