Kent West wrote: > This isn't exactly a Debian question, but maybe you can help. > > First off, DOH! > > Secondly, I've got two drives in my box; the master is running Win95 and is > apparently double-spaced. I know, I know, doublespace is just asking for > trouble, but it was the only option I had for more drive space. > > I had forgotten the drive was doublespaced. > > I installed potato on the second drive, and then decided to install lilo. > The first time around, lilo gave me the message that my BIOS might not boot > from the second drive. I said "OK" and continued on. Upon reboot, Win95 > came up just fine, but I never got a LILO prompt. > > So I went back and reconfigured lilo.conf so that one or two of the lines > that were referring to hdb1 now referred to hda1. (I don't have the > computer or files at hand right now.) I think it was either/both/allthree > the boot= line and/or the install= line and/or the root= line. > > Upon reboot, lilo came up and gave me my options of linux or Win95, and > linux starts just fine. Win95 however does a repeating "Loading Windows, > LILO, Loading Windows, LILO ....". > > When I try to mount the Win partition in Linux, it says there's no msdos > type or vfat type partitions. About this time I start remembering that > maybe the Win drive is double-spaced. > > So I boot off a Win95 floppy and try to access the C: drive and get an > "Invalid media type" error. I run Win95's fdisk and it reports the > partition as UNKNOWN. "Great," I think, "just great!" > > Does anyone know how I can recover my Win95 partition so my family can have > their toy back? > > Thanks.
Just wanted to let everyone know, this is now fixed. Good ol' Norton Utilities for Win95 to the rescue. Saw I had a "corrupt" boot sector, offered to fix it, did, and now everything is dandy. Once I got the system up, I realized that the Win drive was NOT doublespaced. So what I did/lilo did to the MBR/partition is beyond me, but it's fixed now. Now I'm using the [menu] option in DOS/Windows' CONFIG.SYS for my boot manager, calling loadlin as needed to fire up Linux. Works great. Thanks everyone!
