The floppy disk should do the trick. Just boot from it. Then rerun lilo
from within linux. This will overwrite W98. You may need to edit your
lilo.conf file first, to make sure it has windows as an option, on the
correct partition.
cheers
dave
andy wrote:
> Here's the deal..
>
> I had a single 8.4gb hard drive, partioned with W98 in 6 gb, Linux in the
> remainder..Lilo worked just fine...
>
> Now..
>
> I installed a 20gb h/d in addition to this this week-I've kept the
original
> as master and the new one as slave.
>
> My plan was to put a completely clean install of W98 onto the new drive,
> make an image file using Norton Ghost, burn that onto a CD (Makes
> re-installing windows a brrrrreeeeze!!), then drag all my personal files
> over and re-install the apps onto the new drive, then allow Linux to take
> over the entire original 8.4 gb by re-sizing the partitons.
>
> Fine..on paper (Or in my head!!)
>
> When I'd done the fresh install of W98 on the new drive, I lost
access to my
> original hard drive, so the only thing I could boot into was the new
copy of
> W98.. I think I remember reading that, if you install Windows AFTER
Linux,
> it over-writes the boot records so Lilo boesn't function any more. Is
that
> right? The t*t that I am..I didn't make a boot floppy on my last Linux
> install (.hangs head in shame and stands in the corner!!)
>
> To cut this short then..I've finished up fdisk-ing the lot,
installing Linux
> first onto the slave h/d in a 6 gb partition (Should be enough, shouldn't
> it??) and I'll put W98 on the original 8.4 gb drive. Now, when I
re-install
> W98 tonight, that mean that lilo will disappear again, won't it? So the
> question is..how do I boot into Linux without it (i've created a
floppy disc
> this time, that will probably help) and once I've managed to get into
Linux,
> can I then re-install Lilo at all?
>
> Thanks for listening
>
> Andy
>
