On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> take a look at the hd upgrade howto I think its a minihowto
> in it theres a way to edit the lilo command string to specify WHICH disks
> mbr you're writing too.
> If you have a problem with the mbr goto www.bootdisk.com download aefdisk
> it can write you a new mbr for DOS/windows
> then if it says like windows 95 instead of 98 or 2000 use the fdisk /mbr
> command to restore that. You may have to edit your
> msdos.sys file or simply add a couple lines to the config.sys or
> autoexec.bat to get it to automatically load windows though.
>
> At 02:04 AM 2/18/00, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, James Mellema wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Try running "/sbin/lilo" as root, without the quotes. That should
> > > rebuild the lilo command so it will recognize both systems. Installing
> > > Win9x or Win2k will write over the MBR and effectively corrupt the
> > > settings there.
> > > --
> > > James Mellema, CRNA MA
> > > -------------------------------
> > > Linux User # 71650
> > > ICQ # 19685870
> >
> >thanks but I have already tried that several times and just get the
> >following :
> >
> >Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> >Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> >Added windows *
> >Partition entry not found
> >
> >I have also tried KLILO several times with the same result except the
> >following
> >line at the end of the other four lines:
> >
> >ERROR: Lilo died
> >
> >Thanks
> >Mike
>
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thanks I will try anything to sort this problem out
Mike
