Re: Help: Screwed up LILO MBR
Hi Tim,
I've had some troubles with LILO as well when I installed potato on my laptop.
I wasn't able to boot win afterwards and the solution was to set the win
partition
active again with the DOS fdisk programm. Then you might also use fdisk /mbr
to rewrite the MBR and afterwards run lilo again.
Jens
Tim Wood wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> sorry if this is a bit of a saga but please bear with me.
>
> I ahve a Solo 5150 laptop PII-233 64MB RAM 4.1GB HDD (IBM Ultra DMA).
>
> Originally Win98 was installed. I added RH6.1 as I wanted to learn about
> Linux and intalled Boot Magic.
>
> I upgraded to RH6.2 and installed LILO with DOS and LINUX* and have
> booted into RH6.2 for some months.
>
> I decided I'd like to install Debian2.2 so obtained the 3CD set.
>
> I have used partition magic for some time and changed my partitions to
> give:
>
> HDA1 FAT16 HDA3<HDA5 ext2(RH6.2), HDA6 Linux Swap,HDA7 FAT32(D drive),
> HDA8 FAT32 (E Drive), HDA9 FAT32 (Drive F)>
>
> Initially I created,using PM, HDA10 as ext2 and loaded Potato into
> there. Things then get rather confused - I could not access anything but
> Potato.
>
> I used the RH boot disk and regained control of LILO for DOS and LINUX,
> as before. I then booted into DOS (Win98) and reset Boot Magic adding
> Potato as DEB on HDA10. I still could only access Potato by booting off
> floppy.
>
> I decided to remove HDA10 reduce the size of HDA3 and create HDA2 as a
> primary ext2 partition. This went ok and I reloaded Potato.
>
> At this point frustration got the better of me and I used install-mbr. I
> could not boot into anything off the HD.
>
> A boot off RH floppy and re-install of LILO gives me the ability to boot
> into RH6.2.
> I can boot off floppy into potato on /dev/hda2.
> I can no longer boot Windoze, no great loss I know but I am not yet
> ready to give it up entirely.
>
> Fdisk shows hda1, hda5 and hda2 as bootable and the table verifies. I do
> have the horrible feeling I may have run DOS Fdisk at some point.
>
> Can anybody suggest a way to get back Win98 on /dev/hda1 and, more to
> the point, suggest a way to be able to boot /dev/ha1, /dev/hda5 and
> /dev/hda2?
>
> Yours in hope,
> Tim
>
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