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

Richard S. Crawford vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:07:25 -0800


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 01:32, Rob Rogers wrote:

> Correct, but just for the record, you don't need to manually back up the 
> MBR, LILO does it automatically.

BUt in order for LILO -u to work, you *have* to have a backup of the MBR
somewhere.  If you've destroyed the Linux partitions and rewritten them
with an NTFS filesystem, then you don't have a backup of the MBR
anywhere.

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