Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Hill wrote:
> After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine
> now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from
> floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help --
> machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess
> with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed.
Make sure "boot=/dev/hda" (or your scsi drive, whatever) is in
/etc/lilo.conf. I had this problem as well some time back. The original
Debian install wrote the MBR correctly, but after that I always wrote to
the boot record of /dev/hda4 (my root disk).
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