If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run "lilo -u"
before removing the linux partition. That should uninstall lilo from the mbr.
Nico
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:
>
> 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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