----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: [expert] v7 Minor Annoyance
> Having used loadlin to boot linux for about five years now I'm rather
> annoyed by the v7 installation process. It assumed that I wanted to use
> LILO and went ahead and installed it.
>
> This would appear to make it impossible for me to continue to use
> linux95.exe as I have been doing and would like to be able to continue to
do.
>
> This leads me to ask a number of questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to go from Win95 to linux as I have been doing and
would
> like to continue to do, and in the other direction (I have no particular
> objection to LILO, but I do a lot of cross platform work on this
particular
> machine and liked the way that I've been changing OS's)?
>
> 2. How do I get rid of LILO? As I recall it's a DOS fdisk command, but
> I'd like to know the exact syntax.
>
You mean in the mbr? Boot to MS fdisk and: fdisk /mbr
Had you told LILO to put itself in the hard drive partition, it would not
ahve messed with the mbr.
Hoyt
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