On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:16:57PM +0530, khagolsan wrote:
>
> I have installed windows in /dev/hda1 and linux
> kernel in /dev/hda5.
>
Keeping bootable OSs on extended partitions is not a good idea
since there is only one boot record for all the extended logi-
cals put together. If you are considering full re-install at a
later stage, please keep this in mind.
>
> My windows partition got corrupted, although with rescue disk
> and through LINUX I can read windows data but I was not able
> to run WINDOWS through LILO.
>
Which variety of Win is this ? Can you run it off a Win rescue
floppy disk ?
>
> Hence I reinstalled windows. Now this caused corruption of
> LILO which was in MBR.
>
If you re-install Windows without errors, the MBR would have
a M$ boot record. On next re-boot, you should be in Win, since
the Win install process, by force places itself on MBR.
>
> Now while booting instead of LILO, I got error messages like
> Invalid MSDOS.SYS
>
This indicates a failure of successful Win-9x install. MSDOS.
SYS is a hidden, RO, system file put by the installation pro-
cess. In Win-9x, this is a text file. Did you tinker around
with it by any chance ? In any case, to get into a proper Win
boot, you can do the following:
o Boot through a Win-9x rescue disk
o Do: fdisk /mbr
This should put the correct system bootup files in place and
enable a Windows-only boot from HDD.
>
> I tried to reconfigure LILO by booting through LINUX CD in
> rescue mode. But it also failed. What is going wrong ?
>
There are two options here. Once you have a normal boot into
Win from the HDD; you may:
a) Opt to continue booting through Win, and achieve a dual
boot into Linux/ Win using loadlin. OR;
b) Opt to dual boot through LILO, provided, your Win is other-
wise booting flawlessly. To enable a LILO dual boot, you
need to do the following:
o Boot through Linux rescue disk (not boot/ root disk)
o Edit /etc/lilo.conf and check that the entries are corr-
ect for both the OSs.
o Run: '/sbin/lilo -v' to place LILO boot record on MBR.
HTH
Bish
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