How did you install Rain in the first place? You could've used your
cdrom as an emergeny boot disk. Once you were in, you could've
simply, as root, "/sbin/lilo" and your boot sector should've been
restored. Same goes for if you installed Rain beginning with a boot
floppy. Either way, at the "boot:" prompt you could type "kernel
root=/dev/hdaX (X being the partition number your root sector was
installed on) and you would've been up and running for the most
part.
And, as mentioned in another response to your post, ALWAYS
make an emergency floppy boot disk. Simple thing to remember --
"mkboot /vmlinuz".
It is a bit of a stick that Storm doesn't ask if you'd like to make one
during the initial installation but, whatever. Just make sure you
make one.
Or, better yet, perhaps download "tmsrtbt" (search for it with
google or something...), the emergency linux distro that fits on one
floppy. That, too, could've saved you from reinstalling the whole
thing. It also give you lots of repair tools in case you need to fix
something withing your linux setup.
> 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
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