On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:08:42PM -0800, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very > > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS > > itself was easy enough -- I just used Partition Magic to delete the > > partitions and reformat them as NTFS partitions that I can use to store > > Windows files and data. (The reason I did this was because there wasn't > > enough space on this laptop for all of the Windows programs I wanted, and > > I already have three -- soon to be four -- Linux boxes in the house; I can > > live with one full Windows computer.) > > > > The problem is that LILO is still lurking on the computer; whenever I boot > > up the computer, it still offers me a choice whether to boot Windows or > > Linux. Is there a way to delete LILO so that I can simply boot right into > > Windows that won't require reinstalling WinXP? > > Yes. You can run windows' fdisk with the option "/mbr". That will > reinstall the boot partition to point only to windows.
I have personally had bad luck with this... The best way to have done this for future reference was to have lilo uninstall its mbr. You do this(as I recall) lilo -U _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
