Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi,

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Steve Harper wrote:

> 
> I wonder if anyone can give me a bit of advice re: lilo ?
> I have just upgraded the Hard drive in my Linux box and the old one is
> destined to upgrade my wife's Windoze machine ......however I seem to
> have left lilo in the mbr after reformating it and it wont boot win95
> :-)
> 
> I know there's a linux command line to return the mbr to it's original
> state......can someone let me know what it is,
> and I assume that I will have to re-install a basic system to use it or
> is there a better method of achieving the same result?
> 

Creeate aWin95 boot floppy, put fdisk on it.
Boot off of it,
Run:
a:\fdisk /mbr

reboot off of the hdisk.
You should get in WIN95 if it is installed

alexm

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