What's proabably happened is that you have LILO installed on a partition boot record rather than the MBR, and that partition is still active. Make sure that DOS's FDISK has the correct partition listed as "A", and run "sys c:" to overwrite the partition MBR.
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:51:03AM -0500, David Punsalan wrote > > By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there? > symptom: lilo won't go away. > > it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge) > off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up! > Where is it coming from?!?! > > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks. > > > > - David > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
