Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?
Eric,
Thanks for the tip to avoid having to switch the drives, unfortunately,
I already tried to switch the drives and it did not work. Yes, the
partition was marked as bootable.
I think that switching the drive location may have, originally, been the
problem. Unfortunately, having tried several different ways to get it
bootable I think that I have trashed the partition boot sector. Is
there any way to restore this, short of reinstalling with a boot floppy
that I do not have?
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:23:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Win95 expects to be the first drive on the first chain. When you moved
> > it to /dev/hdc, you broke Windows. Move it back to /dev/hda1; chances
> > are it'll come right up.
>
> Or you can leave the disks the way they are and have LILO re-map the
> drives for you:
>
> # boot Windows from second disk by swapping C: and D: drives
>
> other=/dev/hdc1
> label=windows
> map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
>
> --
> Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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