Re: MBR
Boot from any DOS 6.X/Win95 bootable diskette and once in the DOS prompt
type fdisk /mbr. This will reinstate your clubbered MBR.
BTW, is there anyway in this list to reply to the list instead of the
author? My problem is I have filtering of incoming emails and it doesn't
work 'coz my filter looks in the To: field only (of course I can change this
to look in the Cc: field). Second, it an added burden having to make sure
that the list address is in the Cc: field when I reply to a query.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>
To: Debian user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 7:54 AM
Subject: MBR
>Evening all.
>Small problem here: seems that Lilo screwed up my MBR for one of the hard
>drives, specifically one with Win95 on it.
>Here is lilo.conf:
>boot = /dev/hda
>root = /dev/hdb2
>install = /boot/boot.b
>map = /boot/map
>vga = normal
>delay = 50
>ramdisk = 0
>
>read-only
>default = linux
>
>image = /vmlinuz
>label = Debian
>alias = linux
>
>image = /boot/vmlinbackup
>label = backup
>
>other = /dev/hda1
>label = MS
>table = /dev/hda
>
>Now......when at lilo prompt I type 'MS'
>I get "Invalid System disk" error message, even though there is no disk in
>floppy.
>BIOS still detects the disk.
>I can mount my windows partition and look at the files.
>
>But I can not boot into Windows.
>
>When I insert my Win boot disk, this is what it does:
>Gives me 'Starting Windows 95'
>Then throws me in dos on A: drive.
>When I do c:
>It takes me to the C drive, which is what used to be D drive in windows,
>and is a /dev/hdb in linux.
>C drive as a C drive where my windows is located, /dev/hda, is not
>accessible.
>
>Cfdisk did not recognise the type of partition that I had on /dev/hda
>
>Any ideas on how to get my C drive back?
>I do need Windows, until I get cyrillics to work in linux.
>TIA,
> Andrew
>
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