David Kehoe wrote:
>
> Okay, this post is a little after-the-fact, but could still be useful to me down
> the road. I have a dual boot machine and last week I happened to get nailed with a
> virus while in Windows. Long story short, it did some damage but I got it out of my
> system and had to re-install the Windows OS (I am running Win98, btw.)
>
> The aggrivating thing was that once I did the re-install, Windows thoughtfully
> overwrote the boot sector and I was not able to re-enter Linux. It effectively made
> my machine single boot. My immediate response - re-install Linux to restore the
> desired configuration. The only problem was that I ended up losing a lot of
> information that I had on the Linux partition as the Storm installer did not allow
> me to install without formatting the partitions to be used. (at least, I didn't see
> any option to that effect.)
>
> My system is back to normal (somewhat) but I was wondering - does anyone have a
> bootable Linux floppy that could be used in this situation to rewrite a boot sector
> to a dual-boot configuration? Or am I forced to re-install every time I have to
> undo these Microsoft tamperings? I'm open to any discussion on methods to repair
> this damage and avoid a system reinstall.
>
> David K
>
Boot with the Stormix install CD.As soon as you get the licence
screen,press
CTRL ALT F(1or2).
mount -rw -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /mnt
replace hdaX with the Linux partition
chroot /mnt
lilo
That's all to it.
BTW,I think you may be able to reinstall on top but it won't do you too
much good
since all config files will be gone and you'll have a lot of different
libraries lying around and packages installed but the package manager
won't know about it.
The way Linux installer are right now it's a mess(score 1 for Windows
here).
I usually keep all my important stuff on a diferent partition which I
mount under my home directory till I burn it to a CD.:-)
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