At 05:20 03/03/00 -0000, you wrote:
> Hi penguinistas,
>
>Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the user
>needs a thorough debugging.
>
>Recently installed Mandrake 6.1 dualboot with Win 95 on an IBM deskstar 13.5
>Gb(new)
>disk- 2.5 for 95 and 4, I think, for Linux. .All seemed fine and bigfun
>seemed assured with trying to coming to terms with Linux.
>
>Then I had the opportunity to update to Win 98 (it seems a bit more stable)
>and I did a clean install and after 2 days of installing programmes and
>service packs I tried to boot into Linux without result. Linux will not
>even install as it thinks the whole disk is Fat32;thoe 98 still thinks its
>only 2.5 in size. I ran disk doctor from Norton Utilities 4 and it finds an
>error in the mbr which it tries and fails to correct. Unfortunately the
>Partition-It I have does not work with disks larger then 8 Gb's so I'm at a
>loss.
>
>Is their anything I can try before wiping the disk and starting afresh with
>hours and hours reinstalling as,doubtless,my well deserved reward.
>
I have read in several handbooks that one should always install windows
first, then Linux, because Windows creates this sort of problems,
especially Win 98.
Now, I think you could handle it the foll. way. Make a fake upgrading: boot
on Linux installation Cd, choose expert mode, confirm the partitions you
have, istall one small package (or delete one and reinstall it), then say
go!. This would reinstall LILO and you might boot. If partition tables are
corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what
to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything...
Piero Caracciolo
54, rue de Bourgogne
75007 Paris - France
