Weired help request

[Murry Shohat]

Excellent, Eric. I booted from an old Win95 diskette found in the bottom 
of a junk drawer. fdisk /mbr worked like magic.

My penalty is that I must now watch the W2K process complete its 
mission. How come this software wasn't smart enuf to issue the mbr 
cleaning command on its own?

Murry
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Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:39:56AM -0800, Murry Shohat wrote:
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>>How can LIL- come up when the drive has been reformated under NTSF? And, 
>>how can I get out of this endless loop?
>>    
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>The "proper" thing to have done is to "uninstall" lilo with "lilo -u".  Lilo
>keeps a copy of the original boot sector around just in case just such a
>thing comes up.
>
>Or from a DOS or W32 boot (floppy?) do "fdisk /mbr".
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>>Thanks in advance for help, and raspberries for the teasing.
>>    
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>
>Even *better*, of course, would be a nice fresh Linux install (RH8?) with no
>Windows around at all.  :-p
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>

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