On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 02:24:52AM -0500, David Punsalan wrote: > > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal > win98 life: > > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command > 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions > > Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in, > and proceeds to attempt to boot debian. > > Could there be a virus here? > > I'd really appreciate a reply.
Sorry, can't resist passing this up. I do believe there is a computer virus known as "WinBillBlows98" floating around. This virus looks deceptivly like an operating system, but will crash your computer, overwrite other OS's, and so on. (: Seriously, reinstalling Windows will wipe out lilo or if you have a save copy of the MBR, reinstalling it will also work. Others on the list have enumerated other ways and how to reinstall the MBR. I've messed up and had to do this myself since I forgot to include "dos" in my lilo.conf file. Typical newbie boo-boo. What I did is I did save a copy of the MBR in Debian and did a dd command. (This is a bit risky and there is some info in on this website on how to do this. ) Don't recall offhand where. But it is a surefire way to clear out lilo. Hope it comes in handy later for you. Perhaps someone with a better memory has the details on this. -- Cliff
