Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???
> I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on
> getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current
> WindowsNT O/S.
>
> I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course,
> had to make it active. I figured, "Well, I'm more familiar with fdisk than
> Linux's equivalent (I don't even know what the name of it is), so I'll just
> go into Windows to do the setting-of-bootableness".
Alas, I'm afraid that Windows has probably ******d your linux partition.
You may well have to install again. The utility is fdisk. It is called
during the install process, and there is an option to change the bootable
flag of each partition.
HTH,
Matthew
p.s. wait for me to get flamed before you reinstall ;)
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