I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWTO. The setup let me boot into Linux the first time, but when I rebooted the machine I started getting invalid system disk - replace the disk message and could not boot the machine (both Win95 and Linux). I asked Hans Lermen (developer of Loadlin) and here is his reply
>> change the disk. Now I can boot the machine only with a floppy. Could >> running loadlin have corrupted the boot sector? > > No, Loadlin does _not_ write to the disk on normal boot. > > Only if you told it to generate a debug output (-d option), then > it would write that file using normal DOS file access functions (no tricks). > But this won't lead to overwriting the boot sector. > > I once got a similar question from a loadlin user and it turned out that the > DOS-system (and loadlin) was infected by a virus (don't ask me which). > > Hans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now I am concerned. Does the loadlin.exe included in the CD-ROM contain a virus? Thank you, E. S. Venkatraman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
