On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 05:50:00PM -0500, casler, heather wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm hoping someone can help. I royally hosed this system!! I have a system
> with an 8GB drive with 3 partitions (hopefully): NT 2.1GB, swap 133MB and
> Linux having the rest. I am desparately trying to get it so it will dual
> boot properly.
> NT isn't booting because there isn't any type of BootManager software there
> to tell it to boot so the host automatically went to Linux (RH v6.0 upgraded
> to v2.2.13). I wanted to go back into NT, add some sort of BootManager
> software (probably from PartitionMagic), and then use it to dual boot, but I
> couldn't boot into NT from Lilo, etc.
> I tried fdisking the drive to clear it and to create new partitions from
> both Dos and Linux floppies, but the host still tries booting from Linux.
> I've tried reinstalling both NT & Linux and reformatting the drive from Dos
> (not necessarily in that order!), but Linux still tries to boot.
> Does the MBR still hold the boot files for Linux? How do I entirely clear
> the drive so I can do a clean install of NT and Linux??
> I apologize if this is off-topic or not the forum for this question. Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Boot with a DOS disk and run: fdisk /mbr
If linux was still running, you could have run lilo -U to remove LILO
from the MBR and put the original MBR back.
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