Re: Remove LILO from MBR?

[Baoqing Ye <baoqing Basit COM>]

   Thanks Rob.
   Seems it was not only the LILO problem. NT still refused to be configured
onto the 1st partition.
   Eventually I decided to reformatted whole disk - what a life :(  - to make
it "easier"



Rob Cartier wrote:

> I think all you need to do is boot from a dos system floppy and run'
>
> "fdisk  /mbr"
>
> that should repair the mbr
>
> Good Luck
>
> Baoqing Ye wrote:
>
> >     I made a mistake and loaded the LILO into MBR.
> >     Now I want to remove the LILO from MBR since I need to install
> > WindowsNT whose loader needs to be in MBR too. Does anybody know how to
> > do that? - even though this means I need to reinstall Linux.
> >
> >     I tried to format the 1st partition as FAT and NTFS, but neither was
> > accepted  when I tried to install NT or 98 in that partition. Got
> > "partition has been damaged" something like that.
> >     Can anybody help me out?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > -Baoqing
> > ÿóË?­æ?¶?yÑÚ´Pý8©³ñ+­«Zjwm?ã
>
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