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I beleive the command you want is:
C:\fdisk /mbr
That will overwrite the MBR with a good working copy and the you will
boot into Win on the next boot. Use the floppy to boot to Linux
Jon
"Daniel W. Ottey" wrote:
>
> 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
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