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Huw Davies wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install linux and W95 on my new Digital HiNote Ultra.
> I partitioned the disk, 200Mb for W95, 32Mb swap, 270Mb linux, installed
> away and all seemed OK. Lilo allowed me to boot either operating system.
> 
> Yesterday I installed the W95 plus pack and my new PCMCIA ethernet card.
> After lots of fiddling, I now have a internet connected W95 laptop. At
> home last night I tried to start linux and it seems that the linux partion
> has been trashed :-(
> 
> W95 fdisk shows the partition table set up the way I imagined but if
> I start a DOS shell from W95, it seems to think that there's about 300Mb
> of free disk space - obviously W95 is ignoring the partitioning information
> and has written over my linux partition.
> 
> Suggestions?
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I have the same setup as you do... booting from lilo... to either win95
or to Linux.
What happens with lilo is it is in the master boot record.
When you either re-install Win95 or by the looks of things the plus pack
(not that I would think so).. .the mbr gets overwritten by the win95
system files.

If this is the case what I suggest you do is the following...
Boot up your machine with a boot disk and mount the root as your linux
drive (e.g. /dev/hda3 - which is what I have for my linux partition).
If that boots ok.. then your linux partition is still there.

If you get here, re-run lilo (i.e. run /sbin/lilo as su). This will
then re-add all the information to the mbr on your harddrive.

See if this helps if not mail me - or put a note on the newsgroup.


Gary Abrahams
gazza@connexus.apana.org.au