It was Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:11:25 +1000 when Garry wrote:
WHen you boot to dos with a floppy, make sure you have the sys command on it.
First run fdisk /mbr and then do a sys c:
That should get you going.
Paul
>Hi,
>I have a similar problem. I have Win98SE and Mandrake 8 operating on a LILO
>dual boot system. When reinstalling Mandrake I went fdisk/mbr after deleting
>the non-DOS partition (ie Mandrake). I have doen this before and it worked
>ok, although I thought I used 'del/mbr'.
>
>Now I cannot get into Windows at all. The reference to Windows in in the LILo
>option, but it does not lead to anything. I can still use Mandrake ok. I had
>problems reinstalling Mandrake 8. It got stuck and I had to start again from
>the begining.
>I can still see all the Windows files from Linux. Will I need to reinstall
>Windows?
>Can I reconfigure LILO to boot Windows? If so, how can I do this?
>regards
>Garry
>
>
>On Monday 11 June 2001 11:04, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> The fdisk /mbr command sets your MBR to refer to the boot record on
>> the active partition. If you change the active partition later, this
>> is the partition that will boot at startup.
>>
>> The WinNT loader is stored on the boot record of the partition that
>> WInNT is installed, not on the MBR. You can do the same with other
>> boot loaders like LILO and GRUB. When you configure these, write to
>> your GNU/Linux partition and not to then MBR. Use a tool like fdisk to
>> set your active partition to the one with that boot loader installed
>> and then in DOS issue a fdisk /mbr. This method is much more flexible
>> than writing to your MBR since the partition to be booted from can be
>> changed simply by changing the active partition. If you are having
>> problems with LILO or GRUB starting (preventing you from booting
>> GNU/Linux), you can change the active partiton to your Windos
>> partition using fdisk and then try to fix the problem from there.
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:33, Romanator wrote:
>> > Nope. It puts it back to it original state before Linux was
>> > installed. I tried it on NT4 machine with no problems.
>> >
>> > Roman
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>> > Michael Spivak wrote:
>> > > if you'll do 'fdisk /mbr' you'll erase all your mbr data,
>> > > including the WinNT OS Loader.....
>
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