No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael E. Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
> I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete installed on the following system
> Athlon 500 MHZ
> 64M ram.
> 20G byte IBM hard disk.
>
> I have as a first partition an 8G fat32 partition with Windows 98. DrakeX
> setup a swap partition, a /boot partition (hda5) and a root partition
> (hda7). Boot loader is lilo.
>
> I need to reinstall Windows 98. I understand that if a do this Windows 98
> setup will remove lilo from the boot sector in favor of its own boot
loader.
> For this reason I am trying to make a boot floppy so I can mount the root
> filesystem and reinstall lilo after I reload 98.
>
> I have tried created boot and rescue disks using both dos (writeraw) and
> linux following the instructions from the documentation. The boot disk
works
> but whenever I select "rescue" from the "boot:" prompt and put in the
rescue
> diskette I get an error. I am not sure but I think the error message is
the
> same as below.
>
> I have also tried to use mkbootdisk to make a boot floppy. When I boot off
> it says it is trying to load the root filesystem off of hda7, I then get
an
> "Error: 0x10" message.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
