On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > >> laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the > >> drive but when I > >> try to boot from the hard disk it prints: > >> > >> LI > >> > >> to the screen and then hangs. I think this is > >> residual from LILO, at > >> least that's my best guess. > >> > >> I'm running PheonixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 . > >> > >> thanks, > >> Andy > > > > fdisk /mbr (undocumented feature of fdisk) > > does the trick. > > > > Joop > > Just wondering, is there a linux way to do this? > -samuel
Yes... but only if you still have linux intact... Lilo saves a copy of your bootsector on first install. this can be recovered with lilo -u or lilo -U RTFM... it's all there (lilo(8)) Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net and markjanssen.[com|net|org|nl] Fax/VoiceMail: +31 20 8757555 Finger for GPG and GeekCode
