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Re: Help, howto remove lilo from MBR!



On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:23:55AM -0500, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> I have a dell latitude laptop. previously has NT and Linux per dual-boot
> 
> through Lilo. After I installed vmware for NT, I imported the linux
> partition as Linux
> guest. It worked fine until I reboot the PC. now I see only "Li" at
> prompt, can neither
> boot NT nor Linux.
> 
> It seems I will have to reinstall linux, or is there a simpler solution?
> 
> Since I want to use Linux as Guest OS, I will need to remove lilo from
> MBR. But how to do that?
> 
> thanks a loooooooooooot for any hint. I am desperate now.
This is an FAQ and I'm sure it can be found at www.deja.com.

Anyway, use either a DOS boot disk and type "fdisk /mbr", or do the same with
LILO somehow (I don't know right now how, though, sorry).

Good luck !

Andreas Mohr



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