Hi
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bimal Raj wrote:
> Hi
> I am having a RHL 6.2 box with winnt (FAT) partition. NT Has crashed due
> to some reason and i had to reinstall that. The first stage of NT
> installation is over but when it rebooted and when i went into the fat
> partition for the second phase , it just crashed saying "UNACCESSIBLE BOOT
> DEVICE "
>
> Is this because of the ext2fs partition ? How to proceed ?
No, you are under wrong impression.
What has happened is NT installer has copied files and rebooted but it
hasn't made the partition bootable. I have come acros this when I
foolishly installed linux on my new 10GB HDD before NT.
Anyway what you can do is create a WinNT/95/98 boot disk with sys.com(or
sys.exe?) and fdisk.exe on it. Boot thr. it and say 'sys c:' and
'fdisk/mbr'.
Now it should not give the error. And you should be able to install NT.
This will wipe out lilo and you will not be able to boot into linux. So
after installing NT, boot into linux using linux boot disk. I hope you
have one. You should. Then reinstall lilo by saying 'lilo -v' as root.
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
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