There is no unistall available for that type of program. It is possible
to remove it by restoring your original BIOS and reformatting your hd in DOS
but you then take the chance that your hd will not be supported by your mobo
making it unusable.
My reccomendation would be to run fdisk/MBR to remove LILO and then to
reinstall Linux choosing boot from floppy rather than installing LILO.
In the future should you decide to upgrade to 7.1 you would be able to
GRUB ae your bootloader without any problem.
When I ran 7.0 I had to boot from a floppy. Other than having to keep up
with the disk, booting from it worked just as well and took no longer than
if LILO had been installed.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "aifusionextreme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?] new explanation
> This is slightly off topic so I appolligse, it is entirly possible that
easy
> bios is the cause if you are correct. It installed itself when I got my
40GB
> a short itme ago.
>
> Since you seem to know about this, how do you get rid of it. I have spent
> ages trying to find an uninstall. for ezbios. you say it flashes the bios,
> if I reflash it will that work ? It appears to load some code itno the
> partitions as well.
>
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?] new explanation
>
>
> > The most likely causes of this error actually has nothing to do with
> the
> > MBR, where it is at, or the size of any partitions. If your hd was ever
> > formatted using a manufacturer floppy ( with IBM it is EZDrive, Maxtor
is
> > MaxBlast and I am sure others also have their own). The program not only
> > formatted your drive but it also flashed your BIOS to fool the hd size
> > limitation and UDMA 66 incompatibility that older BIOSs had. If this is
> the
> > case then neither LILO nor BootMagic can or will work as a bootloader on
> > your system.
> > SystemCommander will work and in Mandrake 7.1 GRUB will work.If
> neither
> > of these 2 is an option then the only be able to boot Linux is from a
> > floppy.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 5:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?]
> >
> >
> > > "aifusionextreme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > <big snip>
> > > > The only Clue is the size:
> > > >
> > > > Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the
primary
> > > partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the
> rest
> > of
> > > the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it.
Since
> > boot
> > > magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant
> handle
> > > larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions
around
> > the
> > > 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option,
> assuming
> > that
> > > this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite
the
> > same
> > > behavoiur.
> > > >
> > > > if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or
> > indictae
> > > what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not
just
> > me as
> > > you acan see from the posting.
> > > >
> > > > If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot
manager
> > needs
> > > to know about anythning but the mbr ?
> > > >
> > > > More importantly how can go about fixing this bug ?
> > > >
> > > =========================================
> > > The size of the drive is NOT that critical, provided the boot sector
is
> > BELOW
> > > the 1024 limit (usually about 8 gig). Thus create a small (10-12 meg)
> > boot
> > > partition below that limit (entirely) and linux should boot just fine.
> > > Caldera has included a new booter in their eDesktop 2.4 distribution
> that
> > > evidently doesn't have this limitation. My guess is that most distro
> will
> > be
> > > following suit with something similar in upcoming editions of their
own
> > > distros.
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> > > than alcohol has taken out of me."
> > > --Winston Churchill
> > >
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