Re: [PLUG] dual booting and upgrading question

[Fred K Ollinger <folling2@sas.upenn.edu>]

Also, you could use lilo to boot windows (or use grub). She needs to make
a rescue disk. Let her practice w/ that before upgrading. rh7.2 #1
installer makes a good rescue disk, but nearly any distros install disk
can be used. Once the partition is found and mounted one just types 'lilo'
to get old settings back.

Fred

> 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 :-)
> >
> >
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