Re: [PLUG] dual booting and upgrading question

[Daniel G Roberts <daniel.roberts@bms.com>]

Could you pass along directions on how to make a linux bootable floppy as well
as how to re-install LILO to the MBR if windows happens to overwrite the MBR?

Thanks!
Dan

Sean Finney wrote:

> 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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