On Sat, 06 May 2000, "Paul M. Gallagher" wrote:
> I just installed Storm Linux 2000 (rain release), and I think I might have
> blown away my Win95 installation. I had originally intended to dual-boot
> Win95 and Storm. Here's the deal: My pc already had Windows 95a installed
> on the primary hard disk (5.1 GB). This hard disk had 3 FAT partitions (2
> 2GB and a 1GB). This pc also had a second 1GB hard disk that wasn't being
> used, so I decided to install storm on that disk. When I came to the
> "Partition your hard drive" part of the installation, I chose "Express
> Setup" (maybe I should have gone through "custom"?). I was then asked what
> I wanted to partition, and I was only given one selection: hdb1 (1033MB) -
> which I took to indicate my second disk. I proceeded through the rest of
> the installation relatively problem free. When I did get to the part
> regarding the LILO, I was only given an option to load Linux from hdb1, with
> no indication of any operating system on hda1, which worried me somewhat,
> but nevertheless I continued. Of course, when I rebooted, I could only boot
> into Linux. I had made a Win 95 start-up disk prior to installing Storm.
> When I booted off of that, I couldn't get into any of my original wondows
> partitions. Oops. So I ran fdisk and got the following information:
>
> Fixed Disk 1
> Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
> 1 A Non-DOS 2008 100%
> 2 Non-DOS 2902 100%
>
> Fixed Disk 2
> Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
> 1 A Non-DOS 933 90%
> 2 Non-DOS 100 10%
>
> Things were looking pretty bad. But then I booted into Linux and ran its
> fdisk utility and got the following:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 256 2056288+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda2 257 626 2972025 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 257 517 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda6 518 626 875511 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 474 9555552+ 83 Linux Native
> /dev/hdb2 475 525 102816 82 Linux Swap
>
> So fdisk in Linux is seeing what looks to me to be my partitioning scheme
> for the Win95 drive (although I don't really understand what the extended
> partition is). And I think it's also interesting that the first partition
> on both drives are marked as bootable.
>
> My question is: Is my Win 95 totally blown away or not? And if not, how do
> I get it back?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Sincerely,
> Paul Gallagher
Paul here is my lilo.conf, notice windows (on hda1)is first as it is default and Linux
is (on hda2) my second choice:
/etc/lilo.conf
------------------------------------------------
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
prompt
# Default Boot Entry
other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows"
table=/dev/hda
# Additional Entry: Linux
image=/vmlinuz
label="Linux"
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