RE: [Nolug] How to get rid of lilo??

It should be as simple as rewriting the MBR(Master Boot Record) on the
harddrive. Your new OS should write to it, or at least ask to write to the
MBR. I recall that FDISK in DOS used to have a switch "FDISK /FIXMBR" or
something to that effect.
If you install LILO or GRUB in the new OS they should give you the option of
writing to the MBR

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Petri Laihonen
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:54 AM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: [Nolug] How to get rid of lilo??

He))o!

I've been trying to install a new OS on the machine which used to have
debian on it. I'm having a great deal of trouble with booting up from CD or
floppy in order to start new installation.

Every time, even when I have completely disabled harddrive from the bios
boot up sequence, the system starts loading LILO and attempts to start the
operating system previously installed. Naturally that would fail also since
I tried to repartition the drive and did not create any new partitions. Lilo
still persists.......

Petri

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