If you fdisk /mbr it will remove it from your master boot record.
It will not delete any partitions. After fdisk /mbr try rebooting to see
if windows comes up. If not than use your windows startup disk and do a sys
c: ...
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 12:23 PM
Subject: [newbie] LILO is destroying my computer!
>
>
>
> I have been getting errors galore ever since I tried to install LILO. The
first
> time I attempted to install it, I got "an error has occured" message and
> skipped over it. The 2nd time I tried to isntall it I got the same. So I
> checked off the linear option in the install and LILO installed without
giving
> me any error messages. Now my computer locks up every time it boots from
the
> main drive. LILO begins to execute and displays the "LI" in LILO but then
just
> freezes. So now I am stuck with a Linux boot disk, a Linux partition and a
swop
> partition. I used the boot disk to boot into linux and configured my
Windows 98
> drive as hda and my Linux drive as hda5 and tried various other LILO
> configurations, all that froze in the same manner as before. I also got
error
> logs in the LINUXCONS that said something about a 1024 limit. I want my
> computer to just boot into windows now and totally remove the cursed LILO
> program from my master boot. I tried to remove LILO from my master boot so
I
> went into the RPM icon in KDE and found LILO and clicked on uninstall. Now
when
> I tried to boot from my hard drive again I still got the frozen LILO
screen
> after I uninstaled it ! So now what should I do ??? I want to go back
to my
> old confirgureation witrhout LILO and just use the boot disk to boot into
Linux
> otherwise just have it go straight to Win98. How do I remove LILO from
the
> master boot from Linux without the LILO RPM package. Any help is much
> appreciated. William
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