Hey philip,
Floppy is a BAD idea. Belive me when you desperetly need a clean (good)
boot floppy, it always gives up on ya. To solve all my booting problems if
any os went bust. I got a bootable cd burnt. Its better
-rohit
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] 3 os's
>On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hey philip,
>>
>> Tried that, But one day linux partition went bust. And so did LILO.
It
>> just got stuck, refusing to go further. Since then i've stuck to
loadlin.:)
>>
>> -rohit
>
>Hi. If your lilo ever goes bust, you could boot from a DOS floppy, and do
>FDISK /MBR
>provided of course that you have FDISK on your DOS floppy. That would
>reset your boot sector to the DOS default which will point to your DOS
>bootup files.
>
>Alternatively, you could install lilo on a different partition, not the
>MBR. Haven't tried that, so don't know how what happens if it goes bust.
>Maybe someone else can shed some light on that.
>
>Philip
>
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