Thank you for your suggestion, JW Park, and to the suggestions of others . I tried Park's suggestion, but that made it boot only to Linux, leaving no opportunity to boot to Windoze. I tried others' suggestions, without any direct success. But it payed off in the end.
I played around with fdisk, retagging the main ext2 partition (hda2) bootable, then non-bootable, then re-tagging the Linux native partition (hda1) as bootable. The first time I tagged the Linux native partition as bootable, I got a message back when I rebooted that there was a partition error (and then the system froze). However, after fooling around and trying it a second time, it worked. I love "computer science", as they use to call it when I went to school. Thanks to all. Jeff Hill JW Park wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:34:04 -0500, you wrote: > > >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. > > You have to reinstall LILO but at different place. Look at your > lilo.config and find the line that starts with "boot=". Change it to > "boot=/dev/hda" You probably have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 or something > like that. Then do lilo again. > > >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. > > heh, I am having devil of time setting up a server. But I can set up > quad-boot(english,korean,japanese win95/NT, and linux) machine blind > folded. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ********* HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ******** ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **
