As Kevin describes below, this is the same as my situation. I had been using
RH6.0 with NT 4.0 in a dual boot situation -- no problems -- upgraded to RH
6.1 and had the virus message ( which thanks to all who have responded has
convinced me that it's not really a virus) and the loss of being able to
boot NT. I couldn't even boot drive A to reinstall NT or use my NT repair
disk. Nor could I reboot from the NT CD (after changing my bios to boot from
the CD) -- so I assumed that indeed there was a virus because I could boot
RH6.1 from the floppy and from the CD.
In any event, I plan to try the procedure Kevin described below -- I'll post
my findings for my situation.
Thanks to all who have responded.
Paul
Kevin Hemenway wrote:
> > *** You don't and the nasty thing is that NT needs to have the MBR for
> its
> > own boot. You should've read the Linux NT HOWTO to find out how to
> > install the dual boot with Linux and NT. Unless you have recovery
> disks
> > for NT I'm afraid the only solution will be... to re-install NT.
>
> I'm kinda miffed at all of this. I *did* read the NT and Linux dual boot
> and set the machine up the way it needed to be with Redhat 6.0.
> Everything was working fine with the NT Loader booting Linux whenever I
> wanted to.
>
> Then, a couple of days ago I upgraded to Redhat 6.1. After I did that, I
> rebooted the machine and was pleasantly annoyed to see LILO in my MBR
> even though it had been told in my 6.0 installation to be on hda5.
>
> So, I go and I run lilo -U when I get inside Linux. No deal. Lilo still
> seems to be in the boot record. Hmm. Kinda annoying. OK. I got into my
> /etc/lilo.conf, changed hda to hda5, ran /sbin/lilo and shutdown the
> system. I booted off an old MSDOS floppy I had, ran fdisk -mbr and
> rebooted.
>
> Everything worked marvelously and as before. NT still booted fine, Linux
> still booted fine, and Lilo was happily sitting on hda5. I didn't have
> to reinstall NT in my case, and although the steps are different, the
> circumstances seem to be the same.
>
> Kevin Hemenway
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