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Red Hat Linux - boot sector removal/uninstall
- Thread starter haeretic
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There's a couple of things you can do.<br>
<br>
From Linux: <br>
<br>
$ lilo -U /dev/<disk_or_partition><br>
<br>
If that doesn't work, then good ol' Windows FDISK can help:<br>
<br>
C:\> fdisk /mbr<br>
<br>
This will replace the Master Boot Record with one that boots the current C: drive.<br>
<br>
If you want NT to boot directly, you'll need to either boot off the NT CD or make a set of boot floppies and choose the fix boot sector option.<br>
<br>
Documentation? You could do worse than the LILO man page, and the Linux+windows HOWTOs (there's a few).<br>
<br>
Peter.
<br>
From Linux: <br>
<br>
$ lilo -U /dev/<disk_or_partition><br>
<br>
If that doesn't work, then good ol' Windows FDISK can help:<br>
<br>
C:\> fdisk /mbr<br>
<br>
This will replace the Master Boot Record with one that boots the current C: drive.<br>
<br>
If you want NT to boot directly, you'll need to either boot off the NT CD or make a set of boot floppies and choose the fix boot sector option.<br>
<br>
Documentation? You could do worse than the LILO man page, and the Linux+windows HOWTOs (there's a few).<br>
<br>
Peter.
tristezo2k
Technical User
In the last chance, get a knoppix and do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
you __WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING ON THAT DISK__
But it will not have even a bootsec, nor a partition table.
Regards
Sebastian.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
you __WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING ON THAT DISK__
But it will not have even a bootsec, nor a partition table.
Regards
Sebastian.
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