RE: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.

["Dooley, Ryan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

dos boot floppy with "fdisk /mbr" or "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/bootdrive bs=446 count=1" should do the trick in wipping out LILO.  If you have a copy of the original boot sector before Linux, and can also use dd to restore it.

Cheers,
	Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matt [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:32 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.


I tried to uninstall linux and put NT on a box (I know, sacrilege).  I
needed to connect to MSSQL through ODBC, and our admin said the only way on
a linux box was costly.  When I went to fdisk and reformat the box, it said
I had 4110mb disk space to allocate - the size of the root partition of the
SuSE install, missing the ~250mb that included the boot sector.  I did the
fdisk, installed NT, and rebooted.  LILO came up, no option for NT..  SuSE
booted up and kernel panicked due to the partition changes.  What is the
proper way to solve this?

FYI: we did end the problem by using a DOS boot disk, and a utility that
wrote 0's to the whole drive.  Not sure if this was the right way to do it,
and I didn't catch the name of the utility.
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