Fdisk /mbr will also remove the NT boot loader. Thats what happened to me
the 1st time. I have another solution for this...
I have Norton AV5.0 on win98. Whenever a new os is installed or Whenever
there is a change to the MBR, The next time u scan u will be asked whether u
want to repair the MBR (will restore to prev state) or U can inoculate it.
In case U innoculate then the NAV will update the new state of the MBR as
the valid state. So before tinkering with ur MBR just run NAV. and in case
anything goes wrong boot into Win9x using a boot disk do a sys c: or fdisk
/mbr.
Now only Win 9x will boot from hdd. Run NAV and U will get a msg MBR altered
Repair/inoculate?? Choose repair and your MBR will be back 2 its prev
state.. NO problems... just get NAV thats all...
> So it shall be written............
> And so it shall be done........
UP THE IRONS
> ----------
> From: Balbir Singh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [LI] Linux and NT
>
> One way to remove lilo is to use fdisk /mbr which is an undocumented
> feature. Try this under windows* and you will find lilo missing.
>
> -Balbir
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Even I had the same experience. Actually i removed the NTFS partition
> which
> > was a primary one so that I could have RH6 and NT on my machine. After
> > deleting the NTFS partition I created a new one (same space) and
> formatted
> > it using FAT 16. BUt LILO simply wouldnt go. So I couldn't install NT.
> > after it restarts for the 1st time it used to go to LILO and start
> linux. I
> > Later upgraded rh6 and selected the Boot loader in MBR option. Nad then
> > proceede with NT istallation again, which went fine. I still havent
> found a
> > way to remove LILO.
> > I used some info from the Howto's which dealt with the topic (this was a
> > year ago), and on rebooting all I could see was an abridged version of
> LILO
> > with the "LO" missing. Now even LINUX wouldnt boot. HOW i managed to get
> rid
> > of it ( by installing Win 98 is a different story)
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > -----------------------------------
> > So it shall be written............
> > And so it shall be done........
> > UP THE IRONS!
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Amit Jaisingh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 12:45 PM
> > > To: Linux India
> > > Subject: [LI] Linux and NT
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There has been some talk about co-existance of Linux and NT. I'd like
> to
> > > share a strange experience which i had while installing NT 4.0 server
> and
> > > linux on one of my machines. I partitioned the harddisk and created a
> > > FAT16
> > > partition and left the remaining space unpartitioned space for linux.
> I
> > > formatted the FAT16 partition and kept Dos over there. I then
> installed
> > > linux and LILO in the MBR. As expected during startup LILO gave an
> option
> > > to
> > > boot into linux or dos. After that i installed NT 4.0 server. It was
> now
> > > that the unexpected happened LILO was there and still gave me two
> options
> > > "LInux" or "DOS"..and on selecting DOS the WIN-Nt OS loader came up
> giving
> > > a
> > > choice to boot up from NT or DOS. I don't know why NT didn't crib. Any
> > > pointers anyone.
> > >
> > > -amit
> > >
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