| eric@lucii.org on Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:08:35 -0400 |
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I ran into this about 5 years ago. When Lilo runs, it saves the old MBR (the one that it overwrites). You can tell Lilo to restore that MBR. I found a description of this at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/faqs/linux_faq_AEN1624 --> http://www.google.com/linux <-- rules! Eric On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:35:12PM -0400, Keith Bentrup wrote: > Hi guys, > so it's been a while since i've dual booted, i just have a couple > boxes now, anyway a friend recently asked me this questions ... and i don't > how to respond ... any thoughts? > > >I ran into a problem upgrading RedHat- I inadvertently wrote Lilo into > the MBR so there is no way to reinstall without losing >everything on my > drive, unless you know some way. > > she's dual booting between RH 7.0 and Win 98 on a single hard drive. she > wants to save the files on the win 98 partition, but she believes (and i > don't know otherwise) that upgrading would entail starting from scratch on > the hard drive b/c of the lilo/MBR situation .. is this true? .... oh she > wants (maybe needs) to start with a fresh RH b/c of hardware > incompatibility problems and some critical files that appear to be missing > > thanks everyone, > > -keith :-) > > > ------------------------------------- > Keith H. Bentrup > Lucid Tech Solutions, LLC > P.O. Box 135 > Wallingford, PA 19086 > Tel/Fax (610) 960-5360 > http://www.lucidtechsolutions.com > help@lucidtechsolutions.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug -- # Eric Allan Lucas #------------------- # Support Ken Krawchuk - Libertarian for Governor of Pennsylvania! # Find out how YOU can help -> http://www.kenk.org #------------------- Attachment:
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