Hello Mr. Singh,
for reinstalling the LILO or to boot into your Linux Partition you
can do one more thing instead of making the linux partition active, but
for this you must know where exactly ( means on which partition ) the root
partition of your Linux is installed. If you know this take floppy on
which LILO is installed from any of your colleague and boot from floppy.
when you get the LILO prompt
LILO : linux root=/dev/hda5 ro
NOTE : * here [ linux ] is the label for booting into Linux at LILO prompt
on your system. It may be different for your system.
* root=/dev/hda5 indicates root recides on hda5 on your system. It
may be different for your system.
* If you don't remember the exact location of your root partition
then try all the partitions once. And remember to note down your
partiton table next time when you gets into Linux.
allthebest
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Vishwas Patil.
BE 4 Computer
REC Surat.
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Dr. S.K. singh wrote:
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> --Dr. S.K. Singh--
> --Senior Scientist--
> --Agril. Res. services--
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> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Somehow my system got infected with a boot sector virus due to which i had to
> > format the C : drive and reinstalled windows. But now, i cannot access linux (
> > probably the entry in MBR for LILO is not there !) and system starts with Win95.
> > I dont' have the boot disk. And so i am not able to use my Linux.
>
> Use fdisk of dos and see that the partition is visible. If visible, make
> linux partion as active partition usiong fidsk and the reboot. that might
> boot your system in Linux. If you are able to boot it in Linux run 'lilo'
> as root to reinstall the lilo.
>
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