----- Original Message -----
From: Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
> On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
>
> May-be somebody will give you a real bit of advice: let me just express my
> sympathy. Boot and rescue disks seem to work only in a plathonic space of
> ideal computers and virtuous users. If you installed Linux from a cd, you
can
> just allow Windows to destroy your boot sector, then make a fake upgrading
of
> Linux from your cd, during which you'll tell it "Oh, yes, I'd love to
install a
> loader! Lilo 'd suit me perfecly well"
>
> Nevertheless, If I were you, I would backup everything I 'd think
valuable. But
> I must say that I 'd do that only if I were you: beeing myself, I wouldn't
> probably be so patient, and I 'd take the risk of loosing everything.
Then I
> would be desperate, and I would have to drink it away.
>
I was wondering if anyone would actually READ my message before proposing a
solution, as the respondents other than you apparently did not...8^)...
I have thought of doing just as you suggest. But what I really want to do is
backup some of my win98 stuff onto my linux partition, reload windows and
then be able to restore the backed up stuff. I have a tape backup that is
giving me fits right now.
I have a feeling that the problem has to do with the fact that my linux root
partition is way out past 10 G on the HD.
I might try posting this message on the expert list.
Mike
