Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Scott
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Thread Dennis Myers
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Thread yankl
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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Thread Jason Greenwood
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

Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?

2000-06-06 Thread buck h
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

Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?

2000-06-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
. 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 wi

Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?

2000-06-05 Thread Adrian Skywalker
--- 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

[newbie] removing LILO ?

2000-06-04 Thread Xavier Michalet
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

[newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS

2000-05-16 Thread Erick Dennis
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

2000-05-16 Thread Necrotica
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

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS

2000-05-16 Thread Ron Greer
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

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS

2000-05-16 Thread Ron Greer
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

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-30 Thread Dennis Podein
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

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
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

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
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

RE: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Ezequiel SantamarĂ­a
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

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Petey
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

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
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

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread John Aldrich
: 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

[newbie] Removing lilo...

1999-05-21 Thread Dan Brown
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