Seth Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can I restore this by running the Linux installation CD? If so, how, and
> how will I then boot up into win98 again?
The best way is to make a Linux-Boot-Disk before installing
WindBlows. After installing, boot your machine with this
Linux-Boot-Disk, log in as root and just say "lilo", this installs the
Linux-Boot-Loader.
To start Linux and Windows with lilo, you should edit your
/etc/lilo.conf and insert an entry for Windows (this could be done
with linuxconf or simply by editing the file and include something
like
other = /dev/hda3
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
/dev/hda3 should set to the partition that holds Windows.
If you have already installed Windows without making a boot-disk
first, the boot Linux from any rescue-disk (for example the
rescue-disk from RedHat), mount your partitions holding the
/etc-Directory , the /sbin-directory (thats where the lilo-programm
sits). Copy /etc/lilo.conf to the /etc-directory of the rescue-disk
and run /MOUNTPOINT/sbin/lilo, this installs the old
Boot-Loader. After booting linux, you should add an entry for Windows
as described before.
Sometimes rescue-Disks have no /dev-directory, or not the needed
device-file in there. The simplest way to get around this problem is
to mount the directory of your original linux which holds the dev-dir
(mostly / itself), delete the dev-dir from the rescue-disk (this is
okay, because the rescue-disks use a RAM-Disk as /, so you do not
really destroy something) and link the dev-dir of your linux to /dev
This worked many times for me, when people ask me to repair their
Linux-Installation after they installed Windows.
Stephan
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