Hi, Group: Thanks to all for the many helpful suggestions and ideas. I will make the lilo boot floppy first and then follow the original plan. I should have thought of that - I have a lilo boot floppy on my other Linux box.
I did a little research on restoring the MBR in WinXP, and discovered that the Windows XP installation CD can be used to enter a "recovery mode" from which a DOS prompt allows the user to run the "fixmbr" command, which accomplishes the same thing as "fdisk /mbr" in earlier versions of DOS. If all is as it appears, (assuming the boot loader is in the /boot partition and not the mbr) it won't be necessary to modify or restore the mbr. But then, we have no use for fire insurance until the house burns down. Regards, Glenn Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user # 135678 since 1994 Amateur Radio Packeteer since 1988 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Collins Richey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:47 AM Subject: Re: Memory lapse [snip] > > > > > > dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > > > > Pardon a detail improvement, but I believe it actually is bs=512. This > > can be checked by simply doing ls -l /boot/boot.0300. The MBR is 512 > > bytes long, so the memory creaks out. > > > > Before you try anything, first create a working lilo boot disk with your > existing and functional ilo.confby changing the root=/dev/hda to > root=/dev/fd0 and then /sbin/lio. Verify that the boot disk works, then > make your attempts to modify the mbr. > > -- > Collins Richey - Denver Area _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
