lilo -u (uninstall lilo) should get around this.
also you should find a /boot/boot.0300 or some such name which is the
original area of the mbr on /dev/hdc;
you can copy this back with dd I believe although best to leave this to
lilo -u.
i'd heard qantas staff were getting more anti-competitive since the ansett
demise; uninstalling linux
in favour of windows must be part of this trend. somebody get alan fels
onto the case. :)
Stuart.
"Brett Fenton"
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brettf
the only problem sometimes encountered is that linux usually writes to the
mbr. so that even after full installation of win, lilo will still be in the
mbr trying to boot a non-existant kernel.
use a dos boot disk then:
c:\>fdisk /mbr
brett
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> Hello all,
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> First of all, I apologize for the disclaimer, it comes up with Qantas
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> Here's my problem.
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> Many moons ago, i have installed Linux Mandrake on my laptop - as an
> experiment. This was about 6 months ago. I haven't used the system much
> and have forgotten the userid and password. On top of that, i got rid of
> the manuals and now i need to remove Linux from the laptop and re-format
> the hdd, so that Win98 will fit on it again.
>
> Is it as simple as sticking a DOS disk in fdd and re-formatting the hdd
or
> it's more involved then that ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Vladimir
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