Jonathan David Pearce wrote: > > I installed potato on a friend's computer using the CDs and foolishly > disregarded the warning telling me the kernel must reside on the first > 1024 cylinders. The computer is question is a Pentium 90 with a 10 gig > disk, a 2 gig disk and a preexisting Windows 95 installation. I was > installing Debian on a couple of unpartitioned gigs at the end of the > drive.
There are two disks in the computer? On which one you have installed Debian and where have you installed lilo? > On boot, now, LILO gets to `LIL' and then quits. I would very much like > to restore this system to bootable status without any loss of (Windows) > data. Any suggestions on my best course of action? I have access to a > Windows machine with net access, the Debian rescue disk, Debian CDs, and > a Windows 95 boot disk. To remove lilo, you can boot with a win boot floppy a type fdisk /mbr. This overwrites lilo in mbr and you can boot windows. After that, you can only boot Debian with a boot floppy or rescue disk, so make sure you have one and it works. By, Sven
