On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The real question now is "Do you want to restore the original
> linux installation?" Given the condition the Linux partition
> is probably in now, this is definately beyond the scope of a
> novice and several emails (and probably a few experts too.)
> Simply reinstalling DOS or something else probably won't work
> since it is the LILO boot loader that needs to be removed.
> Your best bet is to except your Linux loss and run the DOS
> command (from the good drive on the bad) "fdisk /mbr". This
> rewrites the master boot record (block 0) with a standard DOS
> boot loader (load the first partition marked bootable). From
> here your installation of DOS or OS/2 on the bad drive should
> work. Alternatively you could just reinstall Linux from
> scratch on the bad drive, at the end of the installation it
> will write a new LILO to the master boot record.
I have one other suggestion to offer, which I use every time I have to
reinstall Windows (every six months or so). If you download a suse boot disk
image, write it on an msdos formatted disk, and boot from it, thwere is an
option under "Start Installation" to "Boot installed system". You have to
specify the root partition, and it runs INIT, on the kernel already loaded from
the floppy. That gets you in to what's left of your system. The rest is up to
you ;-). Typing "lilo" will restore the boot record. If more than that is gone,
you're on your own.
Try under www.suse.de or www.suse.com
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
