Edison....no, the command is 'fdisk /mbr' not 'format /mbr'.
And you need the program 'fdisk.exe' on the bootable dos
floppy.
Alan
Edison Gica wrote:
>
> Hi M.:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yes, I have a windows boot disk and can boot from my floppy drive. So i
> just give the command format /mbr thus overwriting my mbr and windows should
> still be working fine?
>
> edison
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [newbie] Help!!
> >Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:55:13 +0100
> >
> >Have you got Windows boot disk (floppy)?
> >
> >
> >
> >If you don't have a windows boot floppy, then create one by booting into
> >windows or create it on another machine.
> >
> >Once you have the boot floppy, then boot with the floppy. You may need to
> >set-up your bios to boot from floppy!!
> >At the prompt enter command format /mbr
> >
> >This should overwrite the Master Boot Record.
> >
> >M.
> >
> > > I need help guys!
> > >
> > > I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing
> >that
> > > came up in setup filesystems was:
> > >
> > > "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try
> >to
> > > go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers"
> > >
> > > Note that I installed the new 2nd HD neither partitioned nor formatted
> >by
> > > either Windows or Linux.
> > >
> > > I clicked 'Cancel' and it went immediately to the setting up of
> >partitions
> > > so I selected 'hdb'and 'auto allocate'.
> > >
> > > I also selected to create a boot disk.
> > >
> > > And...Charles LM installed LILO on my Windows disk! There was no
> >option
> > > after the create boot disk it jumped directly to Configure X! Boy..I
> >did not
> > > want that to happen!
> > >
> > > After installing, it rebooted the computer and LILO came up :( so I
> >entered
> > > to go to Linux. The Console mode login session came up but the screen
> >would
> > > go on and off, what's wrong?
> > >
> > > I also tried to boot using the created 'boot disk' and an error came,
> > > error 0X10.
> > >
> > > Would sincerely appreciate any help guys.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux
> >to
> > > just boot from the 'boot disk'?
> > >
> > > edison
> > >
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