Nothing helps right now, but thanks. I seem to have made my SCSI 0 (Win98)
disc unbootable in my zest to get the system back to dual boot status. I
ended up overwriting the first sector of the sda1 (dos bootable) partition
with lilo as well as the MBR. The end result is that Win98 will no longer
boot even when I restore the MBR with a FDISK /MBR and I can't find a
utility to repair the sda1 partition. Now I'm saving data w/a bunch of
floppies and zip discs and will soon re-install Win98 (in a day or so).
Also thanks to the other folks who made suggestions. I just wish I hadn't
screwed up. Oh well!!
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo
> I am not sure if there is a SCSI thingg i am missing..(i have never had
> the fortune to work with SCSI HDD)...but i did that to myself before...
> I reinstalled Win95 on my system adn forgot that the mBR would be
> overwritten...i could not even get to my linux system to run lilo
> again...so i booted using a boot/rescue disk (i use tomsrtbt...tell me
> if u need links to it)...then i mounted my linux partition and reran
> lilo...(i had to chroot the lilo command so that it goes to the
> etc/lilo.conf on my mounted volume...
>
> hope this helps..
> On 21 Jun, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > Sigh....well today UPS left me a package with my Microsoft Win98 SE
update
> > in it, so I (gulp) installed it. It overwrote my lilo on the mbr of
sda.
> > My system consists of two scsi drives, scsi 0 has Win 98 in one
partition
> > and scsi 1 has mdk 6.0 w/3 partitions a swap, /boot and /. When I
executed
> > /sbin/lilo I was told there was no
> > /etc/lilo.conf. So I created the below file in hopes I was correct with
the
> > settings and it would work. When I again executed /sbin/lilo it seemed
to
> > access only scsi 1 and when I rebooted the mbr was still under Microsoft
> > control.
> >
> > boot=/dev/sdb
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sdb6
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/sda
> > label=dos
> > table=/dev/sda
> >
> > What must I do to get lilo re-installed on scsi 0 and are my settings in
my
> > new lilo.conf correct (what happened to lilo.conf anyway, why did it
> > disappear from /etc)?
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
>
