A fine solution only with the problem that the guy has already booting Win98 and non
booting linux.
Trty this. boot from linux installation CD. While it waits for welcome message
switch to another console by Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc. On one of the consoles you will
find bash shell prompt.
type there.
#cfdisk
/*To check out what is your linux partition. If you know it skip it.*/
#mkdir lindisk
#mount /dev/hda* /lindisk
#lilo -(some option to specify config file) /lindisk/etc/lilo.conf
#reboot
It's an experiment and should work.
Somebody remind me how to specify lilo config file at command line.
/dev/hda is your HDD if it's primary master
/dev/hdb is your HDD if it's primary slave
/dev/hdc is your HDD if it's secondary master
/dev/hdd is your HDD if it's secondary slave
Your linux partition is /dev/hda2 if it's second partition. cfdisk should tell you
what partition and disk it is.
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
Mandar Behere wrote:
> make a bootdisk for linux
> mkbootdisk
> and then install win98. Let it overwrite the MBR. After that use the linux boot
> disk and boot into Linux.
> then run lilo (I guess /sbin/lilo) to install lilo. This will modify the mbr to
> give u access to your Linux partition.
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