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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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