On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:50:09PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > > It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my > > boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it > > didn't recognize the vfat2 partition. Anything else is working, just > > this is not. I have installed the lilo and I cannot remove it. The > > method with booting from floppy and giving fdisk /mbr doesn't work. > I dont want to upset you, but I _think_ you have fried your win95 > partition... Yes, but don't panic, lilo had made a backup. Use lilo -u /dev/sda1 to restore the old one. Verify before that /boot/boot.0801 has the expected modification date (i.e. when you installed lilo with the boot=/dev/sda1 option) Now make sure you have a floppy handy from which you could boot Linux. Next switch on the bootable flag of the /dev/sda1 partition using cfdisk. Switch it off for all other partitions. Now you should be able to reboot to Windows 95, provided you did the fdisk/mbr before. To really make booting as you wanted it replace boot=/dev/sda1 with boot=/dev/sda and run lilo -v (after booting to Linux of course :-) Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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