On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Phil C wrote:

> I have looked on the NetBSD web page, and I have not seen anything related
> to removing lilo from the MBR when moving to a strictly BSD box. Right now
> I have tried booting from the boot floppy and then issuing the following
> commands:
> 
> fdisk -i -c /mnt/mdec/mbr_bootsel /dev/rsd0a
> fdisk -B /dev/rsd0a
> 
> That tells me that the bootselector has been installed, but lilo still
> insists on controlling what is going to boot the machine... ugh!
> 
> Can someone please tell me how to either rip out lilo or install the bootsel?
> Remember tho that I have to do this from the install floppy... since lilo will
> not let me into the machine.
 
If you've got a bootable DOS-floppy with Dos's fdisk on it, you can
boot that and do "fdisk /MBR", which will make a standard bootsector,
which will result in the one and only OS on your disk being booted.  

Marc Schneiders

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marc@oldserver.demon.nl

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