According to Doin' the Bull Dance, Feelin' the Flow...: While burning my CPU.
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> Hey all!  Firstly, anyone that replies to this message, please reply in
> private.  I stopped recieving list mail, though I can apparently still send
> it since I have recieved replies to questions regarding mp3 players from a
> post...
> 
> Anyhow, my actual question is this:  My friend managed to overwrite her MBR.
> LILO will no longer boot Windows 95, even though it still should be in
> existence.  She was going to try and restart Windows with a startup disk, if
> she can find it, and see if she could fix it from there by using fdisk.
> Assuming that that works, she's cool.  If not, what can she do other than
> reinstall Windows from scratch and lose all her data that is not backed
> up???  Any ideas?  She is using Red Hat...5.something.  She's actually much
> better at this sort of thing than this email makes her sound, but all it
> takes is one dumb mistake...  Anyhow, anyone got any ideas on how to fix
> this little problem???

If you copied the origanal MBR as advised to in the documentation you could
try, lilo -u <device> as of if it will work, i dont know, its just a
suggestion. The file that has this information is /boot/boot.NNNN

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> thanks!
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