[vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> You can't uninstall LILO like that.  Uninstalling LILO recreates
> the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original
> LILO (which also had the original MBR) is gone, you can't uninstall LILO.
> 
> What you wanna do here is REinstall LILO.  Make it boot directly into
> Windows without prompting.  Create a lilo.conf file then run:

I'm not sure I understand how that will work, since lilo.conf lives in
/etc, on the Linux side... am I right?  If that's the case, then LILO
won't be able to see lilo.conf. 
>
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