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stuck on "LI"



On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Robert P. Sarao wrote:

> This is where I stand right now...
>
> Can boot the system using a win98 set disk... tried everything including a
> format.. I have no Linux media whatsoever.
> Is there anyway to get to the MBR to wipe it out...?

If you have any MS OS installation media, you should have access to MS's
'fdisk' utility.  If you run:

fdisk /mbr

you will update the master boot record.  The fdisk utility will examine
the current partitioning, and attempt to discover which partition is
bootable (e.g. - the first primary DOS parition).

Surprisingly, fdisk usually doesn't conclude that any available ext2
partitions are bootable.  ;)

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-Ron-
https://www.yellowbank.com/

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