On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for the timely answer. Unfortunately, it didn't help - I get the
same
> :Loading DOS, the the LILO boot prompt. I was also unable to mount the
dos
> partition.
I don't understand this. I just installed lilo onto /dev/hda1 (also a
dos partition), verified that I couldn't mount it, installed lilo back
on /dev/hda4 where it belongs (my /), copied /boot/boot.0301 back to
/dev/hda1 and mounted /dev/hda1 no worry. I am not about to run dos
just to prove a point to myself. :-)
>
> At this point I'm willing to just reformat, etc... If I do this though,
it's
> only postponing the issue of how do I install LILO to avoid this in
the
> future.
Just don't install lilo on the dos partition. Make boot=/dev/hda2
>
> Also, there's the question of - Will this work? (ie reformat hda1,
install
> Win98)
I have never installed win9x. I have no idea if it is possible. :-)
However, if you have installed lilo with boot=/dev/hda2, with dos fdisk
you can set the active partition to - whatever dos calls hda2, and next
time you boot you should get lilo, and from there either to linux or to
dos.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chuck Rouse
>
Lawson
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