Boot from any DOS 6.X/Win95 bootable diskette and once in the DOS prompt type fdisk /mbr. This will reinstate your clubbered MBR.
BTW, is there anyway in this list to reply to the list instead of the author? My problem is I have filtering of incoming emails and it doesn't work 'coz my filter looks in the To: field only (of course I can change this to look in the Cc: field). Second, it an added burden having to make sure that the list address is in the Cc: field when I reply to a query. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian user list <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 7:54 AM Subject: MBR >Evening all. >Small problem here: seems that Lilo screwed up my MBR for one of the hard >drives, specifically one with Win95 on it. >Here is lilo.conf: >boot = /dev/hda >root = /dev/hdb2 >install = /boot/boot.b >map = /boot/map >vga = normal >delay = 50 >ramdisk = 0 > >read-only >default = linux > >image = /vmlinuz >label = Debian >alias = linux > >image = /boot/vmlinbackup >label = backup > >other = /dev/hda1 >label = MS >table = /dev/hda > >Now......when at lilo prompt I type 'MS' >I get "Invalid System disk" error message, even though there is no disk in >floppy. >BIOS still detects the disk. >I can mount my windows partition and look at the files. > >But I can not boot into Windows. > >When I insert my Win boot disk, this is what it does: >Gives me 'Starting Windows 95' >Then throws me in dos on A: drive. >When I do c: >It takes me to the C drive, which is what used to be D drive in windows, >and is a /dev/hdb in linux. >C drive as a C drive where my windows is located, /dev/hda, is not >accessible. > >Cfdisk did not recognise the type of partition that I had on /dev/hda > >Any ideas on how to get my C drive back? >I do need Windows, until I get cyrillics to work in linux. >TIA, > Andrew > >____________________________________________________________________ >Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov >someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 >need you. | > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
