On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Sven Garbade wrote: >Jonathan David Pearce wrote: >> >> I installed potato on a friend's computer using the CDs and foolishly >> disregarded the warning telling me the kernel must reside on the first >> 1024 cylinders. The computer is question is a Pentium 90 with a 10 gig >> disk, a 2 gig disk and a preexisting Windows 95 installation. I was >> installing Debian on a couple of unpartitioned gigs at the end of the >> drive. > >There are two disks in the computer? On which one you have installed >Debian and where have you installed lilo?
The large disk (10 gig) has both the Debian base system and lilo. The small disk has just (Windows) data; the large disk has the Win95 installation. >> On boot, now, LILO gets to `LIL' and then quits. I would very much like >> to restore this system to bootable status without any loss of (Windows) >> data. Any suggestions on my best course of action? I have access to a >> Windows machine with net access, the Debian rescue disk, Debian CDs, and >> a Windows 95 boot disk. > >To remove lilo, you can boot with a win boot floppy a type fdisk /mbr. >This overwrites lilo in mbr and you can boot windows. After that, you >can only boot Debian with a boot floppy or rescue disk, so make sure you >have one and it works. > >By, Sven Mmm, sounds good. Will try as soon as I leave work. Sincerely, Jonathan Pearce
