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

[Rob Rogers]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:30:34 -0800, Richard S. Crawford 
<rscrawford@mossroot.com> wrote:

> 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.

If you had cut one less line in your quoting you would have seen:

lilo -C lilo.conf

man lilo says:
-C config-file
       lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from its config
       file, by default /etc/lilo.conf.  This option can be used to specify
       a non-default config file.