I remember doing a fdisk /mbr for some reason and it destroyed my lilo... obviously - but lilo would still start except just display: lil and stop! I've learnt my lesson now. Doing an fdisk /mbr command should not in any way destroy booting to linux via your floppy disk. If someone knows better then let me know asap! :o) As an aside, when I make changes to lilo - it complains and says device 80 and 81 has invalid data (or something like that) but it still continues as normal! [I don't want people explaining this to me - I know what the 80 and 81 signify] Is there a reason why you didn't use lilo? I've found no problems with it whatsoever. Kev -----Original Message----- From: Rod C. Johnson [mailto:rjohns@otenet.gr] Sent: 03 April 2000 12:39 To: SuSE Mailing list Subject: [SLE] MBR and Win98 Hi All, I have a dual boot, Win98 SuSE 6.0, Dell. I don't use LILO, I start Linux from a boot floppy. I have a single Win partition and 3 Linux partitions. My win98 disk utilities say that there is a problem with my MBR and they want to re-write the MBR. I'm inclined to use dos' fdisk /MBR and rewrite the MBR myself but.... on page 93 of my SuSE manual it says "These commands only write the first 446 bytes (the boot code) into the MBR and leave the partitions untouched." The footnote notes however that....... "This is provided that the MBR has valid code. If not, it is considered invalid and the partition table is moved to "null."" Could someone please explain this to me? and How can I make a copy of the partition table in case I toast it while trying to fix the MBR (fips???)? Thanks, Rod -- 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/