Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-08 Thread mlh
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:23:02 +1100 (EST) Michael Tokar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about deactivating the active partition on my 2nd drive? with fdisk under linux, you use the 'a' command I think. Are you saying there is a risk my partition info for my 1st drive will be lost? Not

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-06 Thread Michael Tokar
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the active partition on the 2nd disk is your problem. XP takes notice of it, and will put it logically before partitions on the first disk. So, if you can, deactivate it from XP. You may need to then assign the D: letter to the right

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-06 Thread Michael Tokar
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote: Michael If you use the debian install cd it should act as a rescue boot disk, you DO need to select this option or it will wipe and reinstall your system. Once it does you can start linux and then just type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo' at the prompt and

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-06 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Michael Tokar said: Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking the time to read! Ok, here's the situation: 2 HDDs currently on my PC Harddisk0 60gb drive Partitioned into 2 drives

[SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Tokar
Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking the time to read! Ok, here's the situation: 2 HDDs currently on my PC Harddisk0 60gb drive Partitioned into 2 drives - 10gb (C - XP installed on

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Micheal These are just guesses. Where is LILO on hda or hdb? Is it possible that your bios is pointing at harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk? otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process. the

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Tokar
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote: Micheal These are just guesses. Where is LILO on hda or hdb? Is it possible that your bios is pointing at harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk? I'm guessing LILO *was* located on hda, since after I ran 'fixmbr' on the Harddisk0 MBR, LILO

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Tokar
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Tokar wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote: otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process. I'm guessing this could be the case, how can I change this? the

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Michael If you use the debian install cd it should act as a rescue boot disk, you DO need to select this option or it will wipe and reinstall your system. Once it does you can start linux and then just type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo' at the prompt and it should restore your previous config. you can

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread mlh
I think the active partition on the 2nd disk is your problem. XP takes notice of it, and will put it logically before partitions on the first disk. So, if you can, deactivate it from XP. You may need to then assign the D: letter to the right partition after you do this. Hopefully XP would do