try booting of a win95/98 startup disk and run

fdisk /mbr

this will restore the mbr to 'normal' and let you reinstall NT or whathever
os without lilo popping up all the time

BUT: to regain acces to your linux partitions, you will need a linux startup
disk and rerun lilo to reinstall it.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: Ty Mixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:15 PM
Subject: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?


> I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot,
> Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot.  I need to get rid of that
> temporarily.  How do I do it?
>
> I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ty
>
>
>

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