You mean "fdisk /mbr" right?? That will over write your boot sector. But rember you will need to reinstall Lilo, so you will need to have a rescue disk ready. :^)
Ralph On Wednesday 02 July 2003 12:53 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Before you flame me for using Windows 2000 Pro :) , I am a gamer and since > my favourite games don't exist for linux, I have to dualboot. I already > installed Mandrake 3 times on this machine :) after managing to thrash my > linux severely when my mobo was not yet supported and I have same funny > effect each time. Windows 2000 boots ok till before the login screen and > then it stays there aparently doing nothing for almost 2 minutes... It is > annoying. After I do a repair installation of windows 2000 it works ok > again till next time I recompile the kernel and install it. Same thing > happened to me when I tried to install debian on this machine. So I am > starting to beleive it is linux/lilo related. I started letting my system > permanently on just to avoid the annoying effect, but don't think this is a > good longterm solution. > > Another funny thing is that a "repair" install of win2k doesn't remove > lilo. I wanted to clean up my system at one point to move linux to a new > hdd, but lilo remained. Trying a format /mbr didn't do anything. Does > anyone know how to remove lilo and let the previous OS boot normally? > > Best regards, > Adrian
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