| Giving boot-loaders the boot
Boot up blues... |
NetGrease
msg:915808 | 9:43 am on Jan 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I have successfully removed Mandrake 8.1 from a computer that needs "that other operating system" installed on it, but I can't seem to get rid of the boot loader. I've removed all partitions from the drive, but lilo still attempts to run (and fails). Can anyone help?
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netcommr
msg:915809 | 5:20 pm on Jan 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Are you using FDISK to change the partition settings?? If so, you may need to use a utility which runs on the same OS as Mandrake. This is due to the incapability of FDISK to read non-dos partitions. I do not know for sure if this is the problem, since I have no experience with Mandrake, but I have run into this same thing changing drives from an NTFS (Win NT) partition to a dos OS, FDISK (dos version) can not remove NTFS partitions. So, this may be a good thing to think about, try a different utility to remove the old partitions. (look for 'extended' non-dos partitions)
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windsor
msg:915810 | 9:51 pm on Jan 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
This comes up with any UNIX-like operating system. Get to a DOS prompt somehow and type "fdisk /mbr". That'll clear out the Master Boot Record so that McOperatingSystems are happy. Rob++
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NetGrease
msg:915811 | 11:16 am on Jan 31, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the advice, it's very much appreciated. I was indeed using a DOS version of FDisk, which it appears was not altering the MBR properly - Lilo was partly loading and then freezing the machine. Everything appears to be back to normal now. For future reference, could either of you recommend a decent partition/format manager? I've got the Partition Magic 6.0 boot disk program - would this be sufficient in future, should I get the chance to revert back to Linux?
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windsor
msg:915812 | 4:43 am on Feb 3, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I've always just used the "pfdisk" that you can find at freebsd.org or netbsd.org Rob++
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