Re: [newbie] LILO is destroying my computer!

1999-08-13 Thread William Baker
If you fdisk /mbr it will remove it from your master boot record. It will not delete any partitions.After fdisk /mbr try rebooting to see if windows comes up. If not than use your windows startup disk and do a sys c: ... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] LILO is destroying my computer!

1999-08-13 Thread Theo Brinkman
It's possible that the Linux '/boot' (or possibly '/') partition is above the 1024 cylinder limit. In that case, you need to change how your HD is partitioned (with a 3rd party tool, or with complete reinstalls of everything on a freshly partitioned and formatted HD). BUT, you said you set

RE: [newbie] LILO is destroying my computer!

1999-08-13 Thread John M.
You have to create a boot floppy with DOS's fdisk on it and boot from that floppy, then issue the command "fdisk /mbr" (no quotes) that should restore your MBR. As for LILO destroying your Hard drive. How big is your hard drive. I know that LILO or actually Linux has trouble with drives over