by >Sorry to bother anyone, but I was hoping to be able to
>completely wipe Debian Linux out and then re-install it. Now, I have
>it on a logical drive from my C drive, and everything should have been
>okay... but it isn't because of LILO. I have my system set up to
>dual-boot so that I can boot either Windows 95 or Linux when I want it
>to... but now I am having problems getting rid of it. You see, I went
>into Debian and typed:
>#lilo -u
>and I go the response that the timestamp was different, or something
>to that effect (sorry for my ignorance, but we were all newbies
>once...). So I rebooted... and I got LILO again. Apparently, I am
>assuming that the origional MBR of my system was re-written by LILO,
>or at least placed somewhere else... but I don't know what to do!!!
>Now, I don't want to wipe the Linux partition using FDISK if LILO
>isn't going to be gone, or else I won't be able to boot my computer,
>right? So what are my options, if there are any? I really want to wipe
>Debian so that I can hopefully reinstall and reconfigure it correctly,
>or I might think about getting RedHat 5.1, but I can't do ANYTHING
>until LILO gives me back my system! Please Help!!
>Thank you for your time...
>Gwydion Dirac
If Lilo was installed in the MBR. Boot to your win95 machine in dos mode. Fdisk
has an undocumented switch. at the command prompt type
FDISK /MBR
What this does is restores the MBR while preserving the partition table. comes
in very handy for just what you are asking (if I understood you properly)
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