On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Tokar wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote: > > > otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather > > than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process. > > I'm guessing this could be the case, how can I change this? > > > the following link could help > > > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html > > > > Reading now... THanks for your help Steven! >
I'm guessing the key to my success could be here: "If you ever need to uninstall Lilo (for example, in the unfortunate case you need to uninstall Linux), you just need to restore the original boot sector. If Lilo is installed in /dev/hda, just do ``dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1'' (I personally just do ``cat /boot/boot.0300 > /dev/hda'', but this is not safe, as this will restore the original partition table as well, which you might have modified in the meanwhile). This command is much easier to run than trying ``fdisk /mbr'' from a DOS shell: it allows you to cleanly remove Linux from a disk without ever booting anything but Linux. After removing Lilo remember to run Linux' fdisk to destroy any Linux partition (DOS' fdisk is unable to remove non-dos partitions). " Trouble is, now that LILO has been removed from the MBR, how can I get back into Linux? I didn't create any backup disks of any sort... can I download one for this purpose somewhere on the net? Thanks again! - Michael -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
