On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Michael Wenk wrote: > I did this back in 2000 I believe, but I had a system with LILO that was > hosed. I started playing with lilo, and then I tried to use FDISK.EXE(from > win98 OSR 2 ) and it still was not able to recreate the master boot record. > > This was a long time ago, and maybe I am misremembering.
If you installed LILO on a Linux partition instead of the MBR, and have the boot flag set on the Linux partition, then recreating MBR with `fdisk /mbr` won't do anything. That's how I like to setup Linux on dual-boot system, so Windows can't remove LILO. Also, if the BIOS has MBR protection enabled, BIOS won't let you write over the MBR. So you're probably remembering things right; it was probably some other issue. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
