Hi Tim, I've had some troubles with LILO as well when I installed potato on my laptop. I wasn't able to boot win afterwards and the solution was to set the win partition active again with the DOS fdisk programm. Then you might also use fdisk /mbr to rewrite the MBR and afterwards run lilo again.
Jens Tim Wood wrote: > Hi everyone, > > sorry if this is a bit of a saga but please bear with me. > > I ahve a Solo 5150 laptop PII-233 64MB RAM 4.1GB HDD (IBM Ultra DMA). > > Originally Win98 was installed. I added RH6.1 as I wanted to learn about > Linux and intalled Boot Magic. > > I upgraded to RH6.2 and installed LILO with DOS and LINUX* and have > booted into RH6.2 for some months. > > I decided I'd like to install Debian2.2 so obtained the 3CD set. > > I have used partition magic for some time and changed my partitions to > give: > > HDA1 FAT16 HDA3<HDA5 ext2(RH6.2), HDA6 Linux Swap,HDA7 FAT32(D drive), > HDA8 FAT32 (E Drive), HDA9 FAT32 (Drive F)> > > Initially I created,using PM, HDA10 as ext2 and loaded Potato into > there. Things then get rather confused - I could not access anything but > Potato. > > I used the RH boot disk and regained control of LILO for DOS and LINUX, > as before. I then booted into DOS (Win98) and reset Boot Magic adding > Potato as DEB on HDA10. I still could only access Potato by booting off > floppy. > > I decided to remove HDA10 reduce the size of HDA3 and create HDA2 as a > primary ext2 partition. This went ok and I reloaded Potato. > > At this point frustration got the better of me and I used install-mbr. I > could not boot into anything off the HD. > > A boot off RH floppy and re-install of LILO gives me the ability to boot > into RH6.2. > I can boot off floppy into potato on /dev/hda2. > I can no longer boot Windoze, no great loss I know but I am not yet > ready to give it up entirely. > > Fdisk shows hda1, hda5 and hda2 as bootable and the table verifies. I do > have the horrible feeling I may have run DOS Fdisk at some point. > > Can anybody suggest a way to get back Win98 on /dev/hda1 and, more to > the point, suggest a way to be able to boot /dev/ha1, /dev/hda5 and > /dev/hda2? > > Yours in hope, > Tim > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
