Daniel W. Ottey on Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT) |
I have an aquaintence who has a problem. I believe this happened during an install of Redhat. He was going to dual boot with Windows 98. HE already had Windows 98 working on the drive, and then did the redhat install. He wanted to put the linux boot info on a floppy only, but by accident he left LILO get placed on the hard drive. It rewrote the MBR. That would have been ok, but then Norton AV didn't like this. Norton replaced his working win/linux MB with an old version of the MBR. He now has a problem where the computer will not boot into Windows or Linux from the hard drive. When he boots with a bootable linux floppy, he can see and mount the linux partitions. But he still cannot figure out how to make a bootable floppy with a working LILO on it which can reference windows and linux. What he wants is: 1). If there is no floppy inserted, the computer just boots Windows (no LILO) 2). He'd like to make a floppy which has LILO on it that will allow him to choose Windows or Linux. How can he fix his system so that it boots into Windows, and how can he create a boot disk with the necessary files to load LILO (from the floppy) and access either OS. I hope this made sense. Any help would be appreciated. Daniel W. Ottey Pre-Junior Information Systems Student Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA http://www.snarfykat.org/ AOL-IM: Snarf2002 - http://www.aim.aol.com/ ICQ: 5723666 - http://www.mirabilis.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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