Philip Webb wrote:
Thanks for the response, but in this case I cannot see any relevance. Selecting Linux in XOSL calls the LILO choices screen with Linux pre-selected. I hit Enter.021128 Ron Stodden wrote:Reminder. No response to the below serious situation:I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which needs an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it?since no-one else has responded, maybe a further question: why don't you simply use Lilo to start Linux (you mention XOSL)? ie at boot, Lilo offers you the usual screen of choices & you choose one.
The clobbering of the C active flag is done somewhere in the Linux runtime. I could try setting up GRUB instead of lilo - this would eliminate lilo as the cause. I could set up lilo to boot directly into Linux as you suggest, thus elinating XOSL as the cause. but XOSL could hardly be doing this, IMHO.
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