dont ask me why but it works and im sure you have never done this turn your
system off!!!!!!!!!!
leave it alone for a couple minutes at least 10 seconds if your impatient and
then turn it on, when grub boots try windows, you should be able to boot into
windows, for some reason linux affects the hardware in a way windows doesnt
like and it will continue to do the same thing over and over again, until you
do a cold boot, beleive it or not this works for the vending machine here in
the barracks, turn it off for 10 seconds and try again.
In a message dated 07-Oct-00 18:03:21 Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< 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.
>>
