Windows rewrites the MBR on install and makes itself the default OS by setting it's own partition active.
To fix this you can either: 1) Boot from a Linux boot disk (such as you hopefully made during the Debian install) and reinstall Lilo. 2) Boot from a DOS/Win9XX boot disk and run fdisk to set the Linux partition active. On reboot Linux should boot, then reinstall Lilo. For future use, it's also good to have a self contained Linux around, either on floppy or CD, from which you can boot and make these kinds of repairs. A good floppy disk is tomsrtbt, and if you can burn CDs, look into the LNX-BBC - it fits on a business card CD and has just about everything you could possibly need on it. Here's the links for those two: http://www.toms.net/rb/ http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Tom Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:41:02 +0000 > "Graeme Orton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi i have my hard drive partisioned. One for Linux (debian) and the other > > for windows. I had lilo configured to load windows as default and to stop > > it i pressed 'shift' to boot debian. I recently installed windows-xp > > professional and lilo load has dissapereard and i cant get in linux. Does > > windows-xp pro allow the lilo config boot? If not is there a way around > > this problem? > > Do you have a boot floppy with debian on it? > Thats should do it for the time being..... > > I guess windows-xp uses it's own boat loader, like NT does. > There are documents on the web that describe how to use > the NT bootlader to use the linux kernel. > You might think off a similar solution for XP, > but I am guessing here.... > > > > > Regards Graeme. > > > > Joop > -- > Joop Stakenborg > FOM-instituut Rijnhuizen > tel. 030-6096862
