[ale] proper way to uninstall lilo

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu]

chiang at nwisgw3.ic.ornl.gov wrote:
> ALE'rs:
> 
> What is the proper way to remove lilo from the MBR of a disk?  I tried
> running lilo with the -u switch but that doesn't work right.  When I boot,
> you get LI which means that lilo is still there.  I "fixed" it by
> reformating the boot disk and reinstalling windows but that's a long sad
> story.  (Did you know that windows can do terrible things to itself when it
> starts running low on disk space?) 

I did this just the other day.  Go to the /boot partition and you'll find your
backup MBR named something like boot.0301.  You need to copy this to the mbr
like so:
	dd if=boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=445 count=1
/dev/hda now has the original mbr.  

> Anyway, the good part is that this latest windows fiasco has made my
> husband want to run Linux instead!  Hooray, windows has pushed another
> user to the good side!

Rah rah.  One for the good guys.  Good luck,

--Michael