Ciaran Mac Lochlainn stated the following:
> >> fdisk /mbr will restore a dos MBR.. it'll leave the partitions
> >> linux fdisk and deleting all partitions will actually leave LILO in
> > While I am in Linux, the following message is the output when I
> > execute fdisk /mbr, even though the drive is in read and write mode:
> > The mbr is on a separate drive -- not related to the Linux drive.
> fdisk /mbr is a DOS command - if you are in Linux you will be running
> Linux fdisk, which doesn't have the /mbr option.  The Linux equivalent
> of "fdisk /mbr" is "lilo -u /dev/hda" (unless John Reilly was making
> that up yesterday - I haven't tried it!)
In the past I tried "lilo -u /dev/hda" and it wouldn't work -- an
original copy of the MBR must be in /boot directory for it to work.
Which is exactly what I didn't have.  The installation of Linux
Also, I'm glad you cleared up the fdisk issue.  I know better now --
previously I was under the impression that fdisk had a hidden switch.

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