RE: How do I restore the Win98 FAT32 MBR?

[Stefan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=F6gdahl]

Hello.

I have now succeeded in booting Win98.

The command that worked is:

sys c:

Thanks to everyone that helped.


Sincerely,
Stefan H�gdahl, FINLAND
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan H�gdahl
> Sent: 14. maaliskuuta 1999 18:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How do I restore the Win98 FAT32 MBR?
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I've installed RedHat Linux 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.3
> this weekend.
>
> During this installation, I entered the following
> wrong statement in lilo.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/hda1
>
> That destroyed something on my 1st drive which has
> win98 on it.
>
> The correct setting should have been obviously:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
>
> When I use a win98 bootdisk and use the option
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> nothing changes.
>
> I can however change to the C: drive when I've
> booted with the win98 bootdisk.
>
> Does anybody know of something that I could do
> so that win98 will boot again (without reinstalling
> it again).
>
> I'd really appreciate any answer or tip someone might
> have.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Stefan H�gdahl, FINLAND
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
> My present lilo.conf file:
> =============================
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.3
>         label=l
>         root=/dev/hdb1
>         read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
>         label=w
>         table=/dev/hda
>