September 25, 2003, 09:42
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Getting rid of lilo
Sorry, techie help thread (in case anyone wanted to read anything interesting).
A little while ago, I got rid of slackware linux in favour of WinXP home. However, yesterday I re-installed linux on a spare partition, in order to test out the new version of athene ( http://www.rocklyte.com/athene). However, upon the realisation that it wouldn't do anything useful, I formatted the drive, getting rid of linux again. However, this time, lilo has remained, and I have to choose at boot whether to load XP or linux. Seeing as how I only have the former OS, its pointless and annoying. How do I get rid of it? I tried control panel - advanced - boot and recovery (or something like that), and had a fiddle but nothing.
Any ideas?
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September 25, 2003, 09:43
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I find that squeezing the valve and rolling it up slowly usually gets all the air out. Then store it in a cool dry place until next summer. Be careful not to get any stones in it or you might end up with a puncture.
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September 25, 2003, 09:47
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Sorry, it means linux loader, its the program that most distributions have that enables you to choose which OS you want to load, and or load linux.
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September 25, 2003, 09:58
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I know with Win XP if you have multiple installations you can choice to delete one by following the same process as deleting a user. The help files give you step by step instructions.
Some how I think getting rid of Linux won't be as easy as getting rid of Win XP though. The only thing I can think of is doing yet another reformat.
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September 25, 2003, 10:01
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The thing is that linux has already gone, however the binary in the MBR of the disk hasn't  . I'm thinking I reinstall windows, or maybe there's some repair thing on the disk. I don't really want to risk anything until I hear a positive yay or nay from people.
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September 25, 2003, 10:04
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If you reinstall Win XP without reformating then you'll end up with three choices at boot up instead of two. 
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September 25, 2003, 10:17
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lilo overwrites the mbr, iirc.
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September 25, 2003, 10:31
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Google
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September 25, 2003, 10:41
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Mercator:  I might be able to do that in knoppix or something... but where will that leave winXP?
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September 25, 2003, 10:44
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fdisk /mbr you should be able to do from a dos windows in XP.
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September 25, 2003, 10:58
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My XP installation strangely doesn't have fdisk. I would've recommended this too, otherwise.
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September 25, 2003, 11:50
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I just tried that, I dont have fdisk 
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September 25, 2003, 14:00
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Boot with Knoppix/equiv, write a lilo.conf that simply loads Windows's own loader automatically, and let it stay there?
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September 25, 2003, 14:41
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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
I find that squeezing the valve and rolling it up slowly usually gets all the air out. Then store it in a cool dry place until next summer. Be careful not to get any stones in it or you might end up with a puncture.
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Or if you really want to dispose of it, put a "Caution, wet floor" sign on it, and float it out to see on a falling tide and off-shore wind.
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September 25, 2003, 15:17
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Originally posted by elijah
I just tried that, I dont have fdisk
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It's in the WinXP rescue console, you need to place your WinXP CD in the drive and boot with it, then get to the rescue console.
fdisk /mbr should fix it.
Either that or "FIXBOOT".
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