jonas wrote,
This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux system too. I fixed the
problem by using Linux fdisk. I noted all the start and end cylinders of
all partitions, then I removed them all and recreated them at their proper
places. No information on the partitions were lost in the
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
Getting the bootable flags back wasn't the problem; they're set that way
now. But it litterly shifted the partition names; hda1 became hda2, and
so forth. Is there any way to change them back?
This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux
hmm, the home machine seems to be hosed, but good.
hda was divided as
hda1 tiny opendos partition to launch windows from d (hdb)
hda2 linux
hda3 linux swap
Lilo happily defaulted to whichever was most recently booted. hda2 was the
bootable partition in the table.
I got the bright idea to
Richard E. Hawkins Esq., [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/21/98 1:23 PM
now only dos could boot. tried switching back, but the partition table
seems
to have shifted , to hda2, 3, and 4.
I can boot off a diskette, and briefly had lilo booting to linux. I changed
fstab and lilo.config to reflect the
Asher Haig wrote,
Dosemu actually looks for mounted dos parititions that have the files on
them that make it bootable, I believe, rather than the bootable partition
flag.
I want to say that I tried mounting and that it didn't work, but I'm not sure.
Either way, it's done :(
As for
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