[HLUG] mandriva wont go away

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi George,

On 09/10/2007, George at dicegeorge.com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ive deleted all the ext3 partitions
>
> and only got one fat32 partition with dos command.com on it
> i did format c: /s
> to make it bootable
>
> but whenever i ctrl-alt-del
> a blue penguin saying Mandriva Linus
> appears and looks smugly at me...
>
> how can i eradicate it
> so the pc will boot into my dos partition
> and then i can install ubuntu?
>
> aaarrrrggggghhhhh

At a DOS command prompt do a 'fdisk /mbr' is one way to fix it,
another is to simply install ubuntu and it will install a new
'unbuntuised' boot loader and overwrite the Mandriva one.

Cheers
Mark