[syslinux] how to remove extlinux?

Jernej Simončič jernej.listsonly at ena.si
Fri Jul 10 09:58:48 PDT 2009


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.

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