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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?

Many thanks for any help in advance

Steve

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Hi Steve, On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Steve Harper wrote:

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?

All you need is to boot some kind of DOS and use the DOS-fdisk with the undocumented parameter "/MBR". This will kill LILO and write a fresh master boot record. HTH, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer S.u.S.E. GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Gebhardtstrasse 2 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de</A">http://www.suse.de 90762 Fuerth, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

Steve, I don't know how much good it will do you , but I have recovered an NT MBR and an NT boot sector using lilo -U. This requires that the backed up MBR is the one you want to restore to your HD. It dosen't sound like you are in that situation. Another way to approach this is to boot with a DOS disk and run fdisk /mbr (or something close to that). This will replace the MBR on the c: drive. I don't know if you can do this with the 95 install disk. Another option might be to install the problematic HD on your linux box, put the 95 floppy in the a: drive and run dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hdb assuming that hdb is the HD you want 95 on. This is dangerous so make sure all the parameters are correct before pulling the trigger. I don't know for sure this will work. You should look at the man page on dd before you try. Hey, I just found some stuff on this on pages 129-130 of the S.u.S.E. 5.2 book. Look at that and see if it helps. HTH, Steve 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?

Many thanks for any help in advance

Steve

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I suggest that you look at the LILO User's Guide(Part III). In print I have V17 by Werner Almesberger. In section 1.8.3 Lilo 0.14 and newer may beuninstalled using . Older versions may uninstall with note the case. But it also says, in bold print, that this must be done before removing Linux files(/boot, etc.). I suggest that you look at the current HOW-TO as this one may be a little out of date. Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com Penquin inside! Now THAT'S Cool! On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:44:44 -0700 Steve Harper writes:

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?

Many thanks for any help in advance

Steve

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