Re: How to get rid of LILO

[Samuel Hathaway <lsy@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>]

aba wrote:

> --- Andrew D Dixon <andrew_dwight_dixon@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> HI All,
>> I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't
>> worry I just want a
>> little practice using fips so that I can install
>> Debian on a friends
>> laptop:).  Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the
>> drive but when I
>> try to boot from the hard disk it prints:
>> 
>>     LI
>> 
>> to the screen and then hangs.  I think this is
>> residual from LILO, at
>> least that's my best guess.
>> 
>> I'm running PheonixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 .
>> 
>> thanks,
>> Andy
> 
> fdisk /mbr (undocumented feature of fdisk)
> does the trick.
> 
> Joop

Just wondering, is there a linux way to do this?
-samuel