Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Dale Harrison <dth@cns.aust.com> writes:

[snip]

> Ok, a bit of a hassle. He needs his Win95 stuff more than Linux, so I'll
> just remove LILO and figure out something else later. lilo -u, lilo -U
> both complain that theres no LILO boot signature on /dev/hda. Hence
> nothing is removed.

IIRC (since I last installed Debian) LILO doesn't always install on
the MBR, but in my case in /dev/hda1.  What does your /etc/lilo.conf
look like?

You could also try to write a new MBR with "/sbin/activate /dev/hda 1"
or whichever partition Win95's on.

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