Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-30 Thread GAPrichard
If you happened to buy the last issue of Maximum Linux magazine, the issue that had the Mandrake and Stormix CDs, make the "install" floppy from the Stormix disc. Boot this floppy and tell it where the Mandrake root partition is on your hard drive (the partition that you want to boot

Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-30 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 30 Jun 00, at 9:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux floppy. The intended use is to allow you to log to your own damaged file system or do other serious system repair, but from what I've read on Tom's documentation you should be able to log to Mandrake and run LILO to restore dual

Re: [[newbie] Lilo MBR]

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
"PatMc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't

Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-28 Thread Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
If you have a Linux boot disk you could also boot from it, mount your Linux partition(s), edit your /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo to fix the MBR. This way you don't have to worry about running update changing anything you have already go configed under Linux. Rick Murphy wrote: Mike Tracy

Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't

Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-27 Thread Paul
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't

Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall