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RedEyes
09-04-2001, 04:40 PM
I ran a dual-boot system. For (rather lengthy) reasons, I had to get into PartitionMagic (again) and redistribute the space on my drive. I have done this many times with absolutely no problems -- Except this time.. ARG!
Somehow LILO got screwed up and won't load --It just freezes -- So my question is: How do I get rid of LILO without going into Linux?
Any help will make me want to kiss your feet and thank you forever and ever and ever...

wreckd
09-04-2001, 05:25 PM
get RID of lilo on the boot record of your hd right?

a:\fdisk /mbr

ThePyr0x
09-04-2001, 05:55 PM
well, what are you dual-booting linux with? if it's with Windows 2k then all ya gotta do is boot off the CDROM and go into Emergency Console Repair mode, from there just type fixmbr and then the Windows 2k bootloader will take over. If i'm not mistaken it is almost the same for Win 98/ME

RedEyes
09-05-2001, 11:36 AM
I did the fdisk /mbr and it worked!!!

I never knew about that fdisk option! Thank you so much for the answer!