Re: Debian-lilo
Windows rewrites the MBR on install and makes itself the default OS by
setting it's own partition active.
To fix this you can either:
1) Boot from a Linux boot disk (such as you hopefully made during the
Debian install) and reinstall Lilo.
2) Boot from a DOS/Win9XX boot disk and run fdisk to set the Linux
partition active. On reboot Linux should boot, then reinstall Lilo.
For future use, it's also good to have a self contained Linux around,
either on floppy or CD, from which you can boot and make these kinds of
repairs. A good floppy disk is tomsrtbt, and if you can burn CDs, look
into the LNX-BBC - it fits on a business card CD and has just about
everything you could possibly need on it.
Here's the links for those two:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
Tom
Joop Stakenborg wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:41:02 +0000
> "Graeme Orton" <cerberus_gb@hotmail.com> 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?
>
> Do you have a boot floppy with debian on it?
> Thats should do it for the time being.....
>
> I guess windows-xp uses it's own boat loader, like NT does.
> There are documents on the web that describe how to use
> the NT bootlader to use the linux kernel.
> You might think off a similar solution for XP,
> but I am guessing here....
>
> >
> > Regards Graeme.
> >
>
> Joop
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