Re: LILO on my windows partition
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The Doctor(thedoctor@nationoftwo.com)@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:42:31AM -0500:
> Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with
> LI
> is there a way to be able to boot windows again?
> This will be complicated by the fact that the folks at HP only provided a hard drive image (ghost) of the factory default drive and not windows 98 disks. I can get a copy $$$ if neccesary, but I don't like donating money to unworthy software projects.
You should be able to just run fdisk /mbr (from DOgS, you have a DOgS bootdisk, do you?)
Also make sure you have a linux bootdisk.
Pop in the DOgS bootdisk, run fdisk /mbr (this will clean the mbr).
Pop in the linux bootdisk, rerun lilo with the correct configfile.
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