Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR
On Friday 12 November 2004 06:09 am, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to
> include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and
> re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the
> same place, I'd expect your old lilo.conf to still work.
>
> --
> richard
>
> Booting into Windows was not a problem. It's re-establing all the
> programs that have to be in the registry. I had installed
> conflicting programs and finally had to go the recovery CDROM and
> blow away the Windows directory. The fix also restored the MBR which
> wiped out LILO.
>
> Restoring LILO to the MBR (since /etc/lilo.conf was already
> edited) was all that was necessary. Windows was and is the problem.
> As I learn to use Debian GNU/Linux, I'll use Windows less and less.
> For example, I'm learning how to use KMail under woody.
AFAIK,Windows needs to be installed first, only because it will always
wipe the mbr and put a Windows version there. You can work around that
with the suggestions already given, it just saves the hassle by doing
Windows first.
>
> Thanks anyway. The rest of my questions, being all Windows mess,
> will be directed at the local PC Users Group which run mainly
> Windows.
>
> Sincerely,
> (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
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Greg C. Madden
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