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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