[syslinux] how to remove extlinux?

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Jernej Simončič wrote:

> On Monday, June 29, 2009, 1:42:38, Paolo Casaschi wrote:
>
>> quick question about extlinux: I accidentally installed extlinux on
>> the wrong partition (I run extlinux -i somewhere beofre mounting my
>> usb key to somewhere). Now extlinux seems to be stuck in my main hd
>> partition... how do I remove extlinux from the hard drive?
>> I mean both the extlinux.sys file and the bits in the partition
>> table... Could not find any info how to doit.
>
> Delete extlinux.sys, and that's about it. If you had another
> bootloader installed there, reinstall it - that's the only practical
> way to get rid of extlinux's boot sector.

It could be useful if the syslinux tools had an uninstall option, that 
would remove the files it places, but also restores the MBR from what it 
was. For this it could write out a (hidden) copy in the filesystem.

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