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Chris Sterritt (sterritt@mrj.com) wrote:

: Hello,

: 	I've just installed Windows 95, and (of course!) it ironed
: over my MBR, so LILO doesn't let me choose any more.  Linux boots just
: fine with the startup floppy (hurray!), but the question remains.

: 	Has anyone reinstalled LILO after putting up W95?  Any tips or
: tricks?

(OK I admit I got Win95 too after using OS/2 for the longest time...)

I'm sureyou know about this but you could do fdisk /mbr.
As for myself I had a harddrive with a FAT partition and HPFS partition.  When
I made it back into one big partition I reran LILO and saw that it still had the
wrong configuration.  I edited the lilo.conf and the DOS part was /dev/hda1
and Linux was /dev/hdb1.  I reinstalled LILO (I didn't do fdisk /mbr) and lo
and behold it runs great!
If you can't get it to do anything at bootup hit shift to bring a boot choice
prompt and tab to list the choices.

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Man 1: I'm passing around a petition to bring back the Dodgers to Brooklyn.

Man 2: But we already have a NL team called the Mets... *thinks*  Oh my God
gimme that petition!  We have to get them back!!!

KILL BAHSTON!!!  GO YANKS!!!

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