Re: Small faux pas with LILO
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Pollock <apollock@bit.net.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:08 PM
Subject: Small faux pas with LILO
> Hi,
>
> I have a PC with two hard drives, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
>
> I installed Linux on /dev/hdb and inadvertantly set boot=/dev/hda1 instead
> of /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf and now I'm having trouble booting that
> partition (a Windows 95 partition). Have I done inrepairable damage to
that
> partition or can I recover from this boo boo?
got a Win95 boot disk? try running 'fdisk /mbr' and rebooting... it should
replace the MBR with a Win95 compatible one. (you'll have to use a Linux
boot disk to boot your linux system and attempt to configure LILO again
though)
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