Thanks for the replies.

I ended up removing the linux drive (it was moving to a new system)
and booting from a win98 cd and running 'fdisk /mbr'.  That seemed to
work somehow.

-Rob

> On 20010514.1616, Cory Petkovsek said ...
>
> On the win2k cd, there is a 'rescue' mode with a rescue 'console'. 
> 
> In there there is a utility called diskboot, which is supposedly the same thing as 
>fdisk/mbr.  Type help for a listing of commands.
> 
> However, I will no longer trust it.
> 
> I did this once on a system that needed it.  After rebooting, the system wouldn't 
>load at all.  Going back into the 'recovery' console, I did a directory listing.  It 
>showed zero files and 7gb free.
> 
> It was a 4gb partition.
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:33:10AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > Is there anything different with LILO and Windows 2000 than with
> > Windows 98?  
> > 
> > I need to reset the MBR so that it doesn't see the LILO and goes
> > straight to windows.  Can I boot from the CD and type fdisk /mbr ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
> 
> 

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