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Conference nlfdc::linux-users

Title:Linux, the Free Operating System
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Created:Fri Feb 11 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:609
Total number of notes:2862

607.0. "master boot record lilo" by STAR::PRYAN () Wed May 28 1997 19:58

I installed LILO on my master boot record ans my system wont boot.
how do I remove LILO from the master boot record and get back to where I was
before installing Linux ?
Also, trying to install win 95 and I get a message saying there is a virus.
I think it is LILO on the master boot record that Win 95 is complaining
about.

Any suggestion ??

Thanks in advance
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607.1MOVIES::TWEEDIEWed May 28 1997 20:2016
From "man lilo":

       -u device-name
              Uninstall lilo, by copying the  saved  boot  sector
              back. A time-stamp is checked.

If you still have Linux installed, then do this from Linux and the MBR will
be restored.  If you don't, then get to a DOS command line prompt and use
the magic incantation

	FDISK /MBR

to rewrite the master boot record with DOS's one.

Cheers,
 Stephen.