Just for your information:
If you are dual-booting Win NT and linux you don't have any of these
problems. If you have to upgrade windows it is not a problem, the MBR
doesn't get overwritten as long as you don't change any of the partitioning.
I just did this yesterday and I was really surprised actually that windows
didn't wipe out the lilo booter, it didn't. After a full install/upgrade of
win NT, I still geet the Lilo prompt and can boot to winnt or linux fine.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows...
>
> Kirk....No, don't re-install Mandrake. After you've upgraded
> Windows, boot into Mandrake with the boot floppy you created
> during your original Mandrake install (if you didn't create one
> then, you can use the command line utility mkbootdisk to create
> one now). After you get booted into Mandrake, get into the
> console mode as root (if you boot straight into X then either
> use an xterm and su - to root, or ctl-alt f2 to a console
> and sign in as root) and type /sbin/lilo which will put lilo
> back where it was before the Windows upgrade. All should now be
> as it was before the upgrade.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Kirk McElhearn wrote:
> >
> > I have Win 95 on one partition, and Mandrake on another. I want to
> > upgrade the Win 95 to 98 - should I just install the upgrade over 9,
> then
> > reinstall Mandrake to get Lilo installed, or is there another way to get
> > Lilo reinstalled after upgrading Win?
> >
> > Kirk
> >
> > vice versa
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