Re: restoring mbr

[Patrick Ouellette <frizzgrig@netscape.net>]

thomas_adam16@yahoo.com wrote:

> --- Patrick Ouellette <frizzgrig@netscape.net> wrote: >
>  
>
> > boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however)
> > as root try
> >
> > # dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
> >    
>
> You're making up command options, as well as devices now? 
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
>  
Ok, so I have an imperfect ability to type.  Thanks for posting the 
correct line.

> *BUT* even then, that is poor poor poor advice, and superfluous to the
> question being asked. 
Poor advice or not, it is not superfluous to what was asked.  The 
original poster was having trouble
with the boot record.  The original poster mentioned trying to install 
Windows on disks previously used
for Linux.  I have had similar problems, and blanking the boot sector 
area of the device has allowed
Windows to install properly when it previously would not.

>  
>
> > This will totally blank the first 5K of space on the drive.  The 
> > "leftovers" from
> > the linux boot loader sometimes confuse Windows' installer.
> >    
>
> No the way you originally wrote it, alas.
>  
Lighten up, you made your point.  I didn't see any great wisdom in you 
post pointing to the lost lilo
link.  The requested action was to get the system to boot to an OS.  
Additional information in the
post strongly suggests the poster wanted that OS to be Windows.  While 
you can boot Windows
from lilo, if all you want is Windows using lilo as your boot loader 
will unnecessarily complicate
things.

Pat