So lilo won't overwrite Win2k's mbr and just doing an fdisk/ mbr will restore the orginal boot loader? Hmmm I was always told that once lilo took control of that machine then thats it you can't get win2k boot loader back with our reinstalling, but I have nevr tired it. This may work then.
ernst wrote: >Hi >I would just install debian, and configure lilo in MBR on hda. That would >not destroy windoze bootloader, just take controll over it:) > >If you later want's to remove debian and lilo, you can just boot up with a >win98 boot/startupdisk and run "fdisk /mbr". >That's it. > >Good Luck > >/ernst > > >On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > > >>Hello all I am setting up a dual boot machine for a friend of mine who >>wants to give Linux a go, he has to 20 gig hard drives hda being where >>win2k resides, and hdb is broken up to two 10 gig partions. hdb1 being >>swap hdb3 being / on the first 9gig. The other 10gig is fat32 for >>storage space in windows. He does not want to lose the win2k boot >>loader just in case he doesn't like linux, that way he can remove linux >>with out messing up his MBR on hda. So I installed Debian and told Lilo >>to go on hdb3 and to write a MBR to hdb then I boot into it with the >>boot floppy and do a dd if=/devhdb of=/tmp/debian.bin bs=512 count=1 and >>then I take the .bin file and boot into windows and place it in the c:\ >>and edit boot.ini accordinly. After that I boot up and select debian >>and I get a black screen with MBR=FA3 or something along that lines and >>I can't do anything. So I then tried the same dd statement but used >>/dev/hdb3 and I get a screen full of 0 and 1's when I try to boot of >>that bin. Do I need to make a sepreate boot partition on /dev/hdb for >>Debian and then do the dd statment with the boot partion? I want ot >>make sure I get it right next time so that he won't give up on Linux. >> Thanks all. >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
