Re: I want to get rid of lilo!

[Ted Juszczak <klug01@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan DeJong(annette@net-link.net)@Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:03:02PM -0400:
> like to install NT4.0... so when i repartitioned the HD for
> NTFS, and installed everything, i restarted the comptuer, 
> (like it said to) but lilo kicked in and said "Li" and quit...
> I just though NT, (like everything else M$ makes, would just
> assume it was the only OS, and install a boot loader.. but iti
> did not.. Any idea how i can get rid of this?

IBM offers a free utility program called "WIPE" that will
zero out the first 1024 cylinders of a disk.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Wipe

You have to put it on a dos disk and run "wipe 0" - not "1"

It will clean out all of the partitioning information and all of
the boot sector stuff.  Works especially well when going from M$
to Linux - takes care of the funny partitions that MS leaves
behind and can't be removed with fdisk.  

Grub (the boot loader found on SuSE, etc) takes up more sectors
than Lilo and can be hard to erase.  Starting over with
wipe fixes that too.

There may be a similar linux based utility that I'm not aware
of.

Ted Juszczak