no need to curse and shout. to remove lilo. goto your windows partition
(any of them) or use a windows rescue disk and type
fdisk /MBR
this will flush the master boot record and remove lilo. it will restore
the standard boot record.
happy?
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Martinez, Maenard wrote:
> My PC crashed:
>
> PIII-500
> 64 MB RAM
> 10GB HDD
>
> I have 5 partitions (1 for linux) and 2 OSs (Win98SE and Linux RH6.2). The
> LILO is installed in second partition not in MBR. I formatted my C drive.
> And I deleted the C drive with out deleting the succeeding drives using
> WinNT installation disk. That was the start of my problem. The following
> happened:
>
> 1. I cannot access my Linux OS.
> 2. I cannot reinstall any Microsoft OS, except for the system file of Win9x.
> 3. I cannot remove the LILO.
>
> I did the following:
> 1. Reinstall Linux but I couldn't access it using boot disk.
> 2. Tried to reinstall NT and Win98 but every time I boot up my computer, the
> LILO would appear and boot directly to windows. It cannot find any OS since
> I just did the fist step of installation, copying of installation files to
> the HDD.
> 3. I used WinNT to delete all partitions including Linux. But the LILO is
> still there.
>
> I am sure that once I remove the LILO I can reinstall everything I want to
> my PC. But how do I remove the @!#$%^%%^$ LILO?
>
> HEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Leo
>
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