Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95
I think that LILO anyway saves the old boot sector, so maybe not
everything is lost ...
>From 'man lilo':
-s save-file
When lilo overwrites the boot sector, it preserves
the old contents in a file, by default
/boot/boot.NNNN where NNNN depends on the device.
This option specifies an alternate save file for
the boot sector. (Or, together with the -u option,
specifies from where to restore the boot sector.)
I've never used LILO with -s option but it anyway created the
/boot/boot.0303 and /boot/boot.0300 files on my box.
I'm not expert in lilo, so I don't know if it really can help...
Wojtek Zabolotny
wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Here is my lilo.conf:
>
> I dont want to upset you, but I _think_ you have fried your win95
> partition... I believe that your 'boot=/dev/sda1' has killed the windows
> loader... I dont know how to best explain how it works, as I dont know for
> sure... I use 'boot=/dev/hda' <-- no "1"
>
>
> > boot=/dev/sda1
> > root=/dev/sda3
> > compact
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > map=/boot/map
> > vga=normal
> > delay=20
> >
> > image=/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/sda3
> >
> > image=/vmlinuz.old
> > label=old
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/sda3
> >
> > other = /dev/sda1
> > label=win95
> > table = /dev/sda
>
> the 'other = /dev/sda1' line says "boot off of /dev/sda1", but you have
> installed LILO there, that is why you get it again...
>
> > It registers the win95 entry, but, if I type win95 at the LILO: prompt,
> > I just receive another LILO: prompt. Also, it will be better if the
> > Win95 will be default SO.
>
> When you get it going... a 'default=win95' in the section at the top will
> fix it...
>
>
> I hope this reason for your problem is not the case for you, But I have
> done this myself once, and It was not a pleasant feeling in my gut when I
> realized.
>
>
> Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
>
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