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Re: [PLUG] dual booting and upgrading question
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I'd love to go into more detail, but i have a dentist appointment...
the fine man pages you want to consult are lilo(8) and mkrescue(8),
though I imagine you don't need to do anything but run them in either
case :)
--sean
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:21:42AM -0400, Daniel G Roberts wrote:
> 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 :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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