On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:58:40PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
>
> AFAIK, re-written MBR would not be fixed by tomsrtbt. IIRC, it uses
> an old 2.0.xx kernel (smaller size), and an old version of LILO. If
> you have made a boot disk of your existing Linux installation with
> "mkbootdisk" or manually, that would do. You need to boot into your
> existing installation and run lilo from there, since the map insta-
> ller would have made entries in /boot/* accordingly for the LILO
> installed on your box.
>
> If you do'nt have a boot disk, do not panic. If the other OS is Win
> 9x/ME install loadlin on the M$ partition and dual boot through
> that. You need a copy of your existing kernel on floppy though. You
> can re-run LILO once you are within your existing system.Make a few
> boot disks thereafter.
>
I would recommend linuxcare cd for such contingencies. Nice set of tools
and much better than toms. Of course, a bigger donwload at 47MB, but
worth the trouble. If PCQ or some other linux friendly magazine can
at least give the iso of that, it would help many dialup users.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
QOTD:
"Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy."
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