Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 07:50, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:17:01 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from man lilo snip - u [device-name] Uninstall lilo by copying the saved boot sector back. The '-s' and '-C' switches may be used with this option. The device-name is optional. A time-stamp is checked. /snip so from command line do #lilo -u A caveat to this is that a New saved copy of the bootsector is made each time lilo is run so lilo -u may not necessarily restore the Win bootloader. Charles -- When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need? -- Steven Wright - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-10mdk-i686-up-4GB http://www.eslrahc.com - Yeah, lilo -u didn't work. After doing it, the machine wouldn't boot at all. I put my 9.1 cd in and went into rescue, thinking I'd re-install Lilo, then I noticed an option for Restore windows bootloader or something like that. I thought it would just overwrite the MBR with the same /boot/0300 file that lilo -u did, but I decided to give it a try anyway. It worked like a charm. Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I believe that you would do fdisk /MBR from a dos console in Windex. Somebody slap me if I'm wrong. HTH Slap With Windows XP, the correct command would be to run fixmbr from the recovery console after booting from the WinXP disk. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I believe that you would do fdisk /MBR from a dos console in Windex. Somebody slap me if I'm wrong. HTH Slap With Windows XP, the correct command would be to run fixmbr from the recovery console after booting from the WinXP disk. Thank you, I needed that. Although I have never used XP before. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:25 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I believe that you would do fdisk /MBR from a dos console in Windex. Somebody slap me if I'm wrong. HTH Slap With Windows XP, the correct command would be to run fixmbr from the recovery console after booting from the WinXP disk. Thank you, I needed that. Although I have never used XP before. : ) Okay, you make aspersions as to my lack of character from using XP in replay to the slap. I guess I had that one coming:-0 -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I believe that you would do fdisk /MBR from a dos console in Windex. Somebody slap me if I'm wrong. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott from man lilo snip - u [device-name] Uninstall lilo by copying the saved boot sector back. The '-s' and '-C' switches may be used with this option. The device-name is optional. A time-stamp is checked. /snip so from command line do #lilo -u -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
Yes, but you need to boot using a Win98 boot disk to do that AFAIK. So, get one, boot to a DOS prompt and the command you gave IS then correct. =) Cheers Jason Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I believe that you would do fdisk /MBR from a dos console in Windex. Somebody slap me if I'm wrong. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?
if you installed lilo in the master boot record of hda (which you probably did) you may want to try typing fdisk /mbr at a dos prompt .. that will delete lilo from the master boot record and you should be fine.. i have windows on my primary hard disk and linux on my secondary and i always uninstall lilo that way before i reinstall or install a new distro and it doesnt affect my windows OS at all .. word to the wise you may want to back up your information before trying this as your system may differ from mine.. i make no guarantees .. good luck :) From: Xavier Michalet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] removing LILO ? Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 18:54:57 -0700 Hi all ! I have tried unsuccessfully to let X-Windows work on my Inspiron 7500, and I will give up on that machine. However I would like to recover my partition for Windows 98. I think I can do that easily (either with Partition Magic or the free linux utility). But I am concerned about the LILO prompt at startup. How can I get rid of it ? I remember there are two options for its location at installation, but I don't remember which one I chose... Thanks for advices. Regards, Xavier. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?
Xavier This question is asked and answered at least once every week. Use your Win start-up disk, boot to the command prompt and enter fdisk/mbr. This will remove Lilo. I have a concern. What do you mean by your statement I would like to recover my partition for Windows 98. Charles 6/5/2000 1:22pm - Original Message - From: "Xavier Michalet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 9:54 PM Subject: [newbie] removing LILO ? Hi all ! I have tried unsuccessfully to let X-Windows work on my Inspiron 7500, and I will give up on that machine. However I would like to recover my partition for Windows 98. I think I can do that easily (either with Partition Magic or the free linux utility). But I am concerned about the LILO prompt at startup. How can I get rid of it ? I remember there are two options for its location at installation, but I don't remember which one I chose... Thanks for advices. Regards, Xavier.
Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?
--- Xavier Michalet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! I have tried unsuccessfully to let X-Windows work on my Inspiron 7500, and I will give up on that machine. However I would like to recover my partition for Windows 98. I think I can do that easily (either with Partition Magic or the free linux utility). But I am concerned about the LILO prompt at startup. How can I get rid of it ? I remember there are two options for its location at installation, but I don't remember which one I chose... Thanks for advices. Regards, Xavier. The easy way: Boot into Linux and log in as root. Run lilo -u. That will ditch it. Make sure you have a boot disk, otherwise you will no longer be able to log into Linux. Greetings, Adrian = ___ "But how am I to know the good side from the bad?" "You will _know._ When you are calm. At peace. Passive." -Luke and Yoda __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
[newbie] removing LILO ?
Hi all ! I have tried unsuccessfully to let X-Windows work on my Inspiron 7500, and I will give up on that machine. However I would like to recover my partition for Windows 98. I think I can do that easily (either with Partition Magic or the free linux utility). But I am concerned about the LILO prompt at startup. How can I get rid of it ? I remember there are two options for its location at installation, but I don't remember which one I chose... Thanks for advices. Regards, Xavier.
[newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
Boot to a Windows boot disk and type fdisk /mbr. -Chris On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
lilo -U Notice the Capital U -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Erick Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
Oops, you may not have linux anymore :) fdisk /mbr -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Erick Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO
You remember correctly , And yes , 98 is as rude as 95 . - Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 6:16 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Removing LILO On 29-Jul-99 Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ? With the DOS/Windows fdisk, type 'fdisk /mbr' to delete LILO from the Master Boot Record. Also if I remember correctly (and if Win98 is as rude as 95), the Windows installation wipes the MBR without asking for permission anyway. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO
At 07:08 PM 7/29/99 , you wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ? Just boot from your Windows 98 floppy and type "fdisk /mbr" at the a: prompt. Jonathan Dlouhy Principal Oboe, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO
On 29-Jul-99 Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ? With the DOS/Windows fdisk, type 'fdisk /mbr' to delete LILO from the Master Boot Record. Also if I remember correctly (and if Win98 is as rude as 95), the Windows installation wipes the MBR without asking for permission anyway. -Tom
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO
fdisk /mbr that´s it! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Podein Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:09 PM To: Linux Group; Mandrake help Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ?
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO
Even though this is a kludge solution, here is what I've done in the past. Boot to a dos floppy. Run windows setup. I don't know what windows does, but both win 98 and win 95 remove LILO and make it boot like windows normally would. At 06:08 PM 7/29/1999 -0500, you wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ?
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO
Lilo resides in the Master Boot Record (MBR) which is, I think, the first sector of the drive, not included in any partitions. Thus, you can wipe all the partitions without touching the MBR. To clear it, run `fdisk /mbr` from DOS. This will clear LILO out of the MBR. -Matt On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ?
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO
Run FDISK /MBR from a Windows disk. This will take care of it FDISK does not remove the Master boot recordwhich is where LILO resides. John - Original Message - From: Dennis Podein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 7:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO Hello , here is my dilemma . I have to clean out this computer , remove linux and set it up with windows 98 for my daughter for college . Anyway , I MS Fdisked it , then formatted it . When it goes to boot , LILO kicks in . I thought that would be gone . MS Fdisk doesn't find it , neither does disk druid , or linux Fdisk . How do I get LILO out of here ?
[newbie] Removing lilo...
Just looking at the lilo docs (which still haven't answered my question, unfortunately), and I found another answer to Will Pliler's question about removing lilo: Just type lilo -u at the command prompt. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
