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Re: remove Debian



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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:15:44AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Aliotti wrote:
>  if a boot loader is used to boot win98 and debian (lilo), then, removing 
> the deb partition will remove the lilo.conf and all the lilo stuff. I think 
> that the HD won't be bootable after that. Is it wrong ?

Windows stomps the boot sector and writes it's own anyway.  Removing
partitions doesn't affect LILO, which is installed to the boot-loader
(/sbin/lilo's sole function in life is to install a boot-loader, it's
the LILO equivalent of DOS's fdisk /mbr).  It should still get a
kernel running, but it'll panic when it can't find init until you
reinstall Debian or install Windows (which will stomp the boot-loader).

- -- 
 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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`. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
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