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Gary Abrahams <gabraham@ozemail.com.au> writes:

>Huw Davies wrote:
>> 
>> 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 :-(
>> Suggestions?
>>  Huw Davies                      | e-mail: Huw.Davies@latrobe.edu.au

>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

If you're sharing a drive, always install LILO in the linux partition,
not the MBR. You can make the linux partition active and not lose any 
functionality. That way when a mentally insecure OS takes over the MBR
you can just use their fdisk to set Linux active again.
There is no need for boot disks or loadlin.

Some people have reported that Win95 will treat unknown software in
the MBR as a possible virus and set things up differently, which
sounds like a typical Micro-Softon tactic.

I use OSBS which is the best boot-loader I've found.....

cheers,
	stoke.