Fire up a windows boot disk and get to a DOS prompt.
Then run:
fdisk /mbr
This will re-create the master boot record to boot Windows
correctly. Windows doesn't correctly overwrite the boot
sector, so bits of LILO are still there. The above command
will fix it.
-Mark
"Bourdon, Bruce" wrote:
>
> A friend had a PC he had to repair recently.
>
> It was Linux based, which he knows nothing about - so he removed the hard
> drive and installed a new drive with an MS-OS impersonator...
>
> The funny part was that he claims the system still seemed to want to load
> Linux!
>
> It has been a few weeks since he first mentioned this, so I forget the
> details, but I think he said it ran the Linux Loader prompt at boot time -
> with the Linux hard drive disconnected and removed from the system!!
>
> This was a Gateway PC, relatively new.
>
> Do some PCs have Linux code in the BIOS chips?
> What else could it be?
>
--
Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems
(cell) 978-697-2228
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