I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my
primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more,
if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't
recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that
didn't work. The Windows files are there, I can access them as
/dev/DOS_hda1. Any suggestions?
Full story: I had Windows 95 installed on my primary IDE disk and
Linux on the slave. The primary disk is 15G so I thought I had to put
Linux on the slave because of the 1024 cylinder limit. That doesn't
turn out to be true, so now I was trying to get Linux onto the
primary disk, on the second of four approximately 4G partitions (the
last is of course slightly smaller).
So I tried to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on the second partition,
basically to get the directory structure, after which I would copy
the files from /dev/hdb. The installation ran into snags, I couldn't
get X working (it's working fine now on the older installation), but
that didn't matter since /home and / were due to be replaced by the
older installation. Afterwards, I could boot into the new Linux
installation, but not into Windows. I used my rescue disk to restore
LILO so I could boot into the old Linux installation, it still works
fine and I can read and access my Windows files from here. But I have
no idea how to restore my old Win95 system. Help greatly appreciated.
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