I have two machines with two physical hard disk drives but I'll just talk about one of them here. Windows ran into some sort of problem and I felt the need to reinstall Windows which I did and I knew it would overwrite LILO which it did. I used the Linux boot disk to boot up with and when it gave me the 'rescue' option I took it but it didn't find the kernel on drive D or hdb as I guess it's called in Linux and the boot didn't go all the way. I ended up reinstalling LM also and redoing the boot disk. So my question is and it may have come up innumerable times before by others so please have patience with me when I ask: When a reinstallation of Windows occurrs on Drive C and it wipes out the LILO program on C, too, I guess, what does the boot disk do about this or does it do anything? And how can I get LILO back in operation when this kind of wipeout happens? Does the 'rescue' disk repair the mbr? Does the boot disk do this? I would like to know. Thank you Richard
