Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???
At 03:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> 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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cfdisk will also work. In my opinion, it's a little nicer, except that it
doesn't report the size of a partition in blocks (defaults to megs), which
is inconvenient when you want to initialize a partition and the ext2fs util
wants to know the size of partition in blocks.
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