Re: [PLUG] dual booting and upgrading question

[Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

hey keith--

this shouldn't be a problem at all.  in your lilo.conf you just need an
entry for for both your linux box and your windows box. for example,
on my dual-booting laptop, where there's a windows partition on
/dev/hda3, i have the following entry in lilo.conf:

other=/dev/hda3
	label=dos

I don't know what your default lilo settings are, but if you're using
redhat i imagine after putting that in and re-running lilo, the next time
you boot up you should see an option to go into "dos" in redhat's fancy
pants bitmap lilo boot menu screen.  it's possible that you may have to
hold shift if you have a lilo prompt that doesn't...  prompt.. you for
a boot image.

if you haven't repartitioned the disk or otherwise mucked with the
hard drive's layout, the win98 partition should still be there.  also,
if you later upgrade some aspect of the windows machine, it's more than
likely that windows will overwrite your MBR, which means you should keep
a linux boot disk handy so you can re-run lilo. (btw, the MBR is just
the first ...512(?) bytes of a hard drive which contain a basic program
that usually just points to another program--the os kernel on a partition
of that disk)

hth
--sean

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:35:12PM -0400, Keith Bentrup wrote:
>  >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 :-)
> 
> 
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