On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:08:35PM -0400, William Bradley wrote:
> Got virus attacked on the Windows section of a dual boot machine that runs
> Debian (latest Woody) and Windows 98. Windows got into such a state between
> the virus and me messing with it that I ended up reformatting the C: drive
> and reinstalling Windows. In so doing, access to Debian has been cut off and
> the unit boots straight into Windows. Is there a way that I can get back to
> dual booting that machine. I'd hate to have to reinstall Debian and go
> through getting KDE 3.0 again.
>
Boot from some Linux rescue media like Debian rescue disk, mount the
root fs and run lilo. That assumed you used lilo. I believe that it is a
similar procedure for grub.
You might also try to use loadlin to go straight from MS-Windows into
Linux.
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Shaul Karl, shaulk @ actcom . net . il
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