On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:44:32 -0400 Sean McGrath <seanmcgpa@comcast.net> wrote:
I have upgraded my WinXP root Disk (C) to a Dynamic Disk. It's a u160 SCSI drive and I was seeing less than stellar performance under XP; upgrading to dynamic has brought back its speed.
My problem is that it took my LILO MBR with it.. I now don't have access to my Suse 8.0 pro install. I can still boot in recovery mode and mount it, but can't seem to boot it. Wasn't there once a way to boot Linux directly from the Windows NT/XP startup screen? Make a third option for linux and use the "boot" command or some such? (Trying to remember back to Suse 6.4)
If that's no longer an option, I am wondering if I do reinstall 8.0 Pro from scratch, will Suse have a problem writing Lilo to the MBR of a dynamic disk?
Why reinstall if it's still there? Maybe I don't understand what happened to your MBR, but why don't you just boot linux from a rescue disk, start yast2 and reinstall lilo? Adding your XP partition to the boot-menu? Or if you are knowledgable enough, just edit /etc/lilo.conf adding the windows partition, and then run lilo? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation