Hi, I have a laptop without floppy/cdrom -- it only claims to be able to boot from usb-fdd which seems to be the same as usb-zip (at least in BIOS it was fdd and afterwards he asked me if I wanted to boot from my harddisk or usb-zip).
I foolishly killed my linux partition and now Lilo only dais "LI" and that's it. So to get the thing going again I'd need a ZIP-DISK that is directly bootable via USB -- it does not need to be any fancy as long as it has an fdisk or a lilo on it, that allows me to clean my master boot record (so I could boot back into winXP and run loadlin). Would anybody know where to get such a ZIP? The only other option I see is to remove the hard disk from the laptop and attach it via a 2.5"->3.5" adapter to my desktop machine and overwrite the MBR there -- hope that is not necessary. On the internet I only found stuff about how to boot from USB-Sticks, whcih did not work for me. My Laptop is a JVC MP-XP7210. thanks tim
