On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:32:02AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Michael Wenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > As I recall, all fdisk /mbr does is takes a copy of master boot record from > > some backup location and places it in the master boot record of the drive. > > Er, not "some backup location", but rather instructions towards that end > inside FDISK.EXE. (After all, it's only 446 bytes.) > > > I think this is why fdisk /mbr won't remove lilo very easily(as lilo installs > > itself into the mbr as well as the backup location) > > Er, no, that has nothing to do with it. When you run /sbin/lilo (the > map installer), whatever is specified in /etc/lilo.conf's boot= line > (which could be /dev/hda, but doesn't have to be) gets overridden, and > the former contents of the target is written out to /boot/boot.NNMM, > where NNMM is the major and minor numbers. >
I thought fdisk /mbr *did* remove lilo easily. Am I wrong? --Ken -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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