No changes to the setup and my bios is set to boot a,c. I had lilo boot windows at /dev/hda4 and slink at /dev/hda1. Everything was running well, except that I had to re-install Windows. I booted to Windows, went to command prompt, re-installed Windows, then rebooted.
I expected lilo to be overwritten, but thought that if I booted by floppy to slink and then ran lilo, it would re-install and work fine. Not the case. While I could always boot slink from floppy, it would obviously be more convenient to boot from disk. Lilo was running without any warnings or errors. When I initially setup, I couldn't get lilo to run, but instead got an endless stream of "01 01 01 01 01 01". Someone suggested that this might be a faulty lilo and to re-install, which I did. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It was some fault on the Windows side. It seems like I remember reading somewhere once that the solution was to boot using the Windows Rescue/Reboot disk and go to command prompt and do an "fdisk /mbr" and then re-install lilo. But I've caused myself some extreme pain mucking with the mbr on a guess. I've ran Linux servers for a couple of years now, but setting up a dual-boot and making a desktop system is almost another world. Regards and thanks for any assist. Jeff Hill Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Are you using exactly the same setup as before? > Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors. > ANdrew > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrei S. Ivanov Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > Jeff Hill wrote: > > After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine > > now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from > > floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- > > machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess > > with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed. > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > just to be sure: > do you set your bios to boot on disk ? -- ********* HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ******** ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **
