Subject: Save me from myself?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/29/1998 22:59:46
Hi, all.

(FWIW: I'm running -current (1.3H) on an i386 with an IDE drive.)

In a seeming fit of madness this weekend, I backed up my disk and installed
Red Hat Linux. Today, I nuked it, and reinstalled my NetBSD stuff. However,
the taint hasn't left my disks...

To wit, when I boot, I get a LILO: prompt, and what looks like the beginnings
of the Linux kernel comes up. When I installed Red Hat, I told it to use the
master boot record, and it did... Is there any way I can now purge LILO
completely and get back to how things were before this fit of lunacy took
hold of me? It looks like installboot failed to write anything into my
master boot records. "installboot -v biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a" seems to do
its thing, but it evidently doesn't. I'm resorting to booting off of a
floppy for the nonce.

Help? (And, of course, many thanks in advance...)

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.dyn.ml.org/mason
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;