----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Daniel Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:43 PM
Subject: [newbie] NEW LILO and Disk Geometry


> Hi, I just joined and this is the topic I joined to talk about but it
> seems past where the info I need is.
> My problem is I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 Complete, and was dumb and
> made the grub boot drive my Win98 boot drive. My setup is as follows, a
> SCSI drive that the BIOS boots to that has only Win98 on the sngle
> partition. I have linux on my IDE drive which doesn't get booted to. After
> making grub edit the boot sector on the /dev/sda drive, It now gives me a
> geometry error when I try to boot to it. How can I return the boot sector
> to boot to Win98? I can't use Windows at the moment.
> Thanks!
>
> -Kennedy
>

Boot to DOS and enter fdisk/MBR at the prompt.

   Charles


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