Re: Debian-lilo

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

windows installations tend to take over the boot partition, and windows
per se is unable to see anything but itself. if you've made a linux boot
disk, you can get in and hack lilo. otherwise, i think you need to get
hold of something like partition magic to restore the original mbr. i've
never used xp but, if you can get to a dos prompt, you could do fdisk
/mbr. maybe that will work.

Graeme Orton wrote:
> 
> Hi i have my hard drive partisioned. One for Linux (debian) and the
> other for windows.  I had lilo configured to load windows as default
> and to stop it i pressed 'shift' to boot debian.  I recently installed
> windows-xp professional and lilo load has dissapereard and i cant get
> in linux.  Does windows-xp pro allow the lilo config boot? If not is
> there a way around this problem?
> 
> Regards Graeme.
> 
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