Well that is good to know that lilo can and backs up the org. MBR, but basically there seems no way to boot Debian with the WIN2k Boot loader. I don't have a problem with that but my friend may be leary.
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >Hi Gents, > >On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 the mental interface of ernst told: > > > >>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. >> >> > >Quenten is using W2K. There you have to boot the W2K CD in repair >modus and run fixmbr! > >A better way is to restore the mbr within debian. In /etc/boot there >is a boot.0300. This is the backup mbr written by lilo the first >time installing lilo in /dev/hda. Running lilo -u /dev/hda (in that >case) will restore the mbr of w2k. After that linux can only be >booted via fd or cd and w2k is using the the internal bootloader! > >[...] > >HTH > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
