Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Thanks to all who've made suggestions. Several suggested the fix I > think will work for me: add a Debian stanza to Corel's lilo.conf. I > installed Debian Linux today using a boot floppy to avoid destroying > the MBR again. So as soon as I figure out wh

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread Lane Lester
Thanks to all who've made suggestions. Several suggested the fix I think will work for me: add a Debian stanza to Corel's lilo.conf. I installed Debian Linux today using a boot floppy to avoid destroying the MBR again. So as soon as I figure out what to put in the stanza, I should be ready to go.

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread Martin Bishop
I don't know if this will help or not, but here it is anyway.. When I first mess around with multi boot, I mucked up the MBR as well. One solution was to boot up the system with a DOS bootup disk, and runt "fdisk /mbr". That will put DOS back in control however. Use this method if you use loadlin

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-05 Thread natet
On 5 Feb 00, at 14:33, Lane Lester wrote: > For several hours I've been without a system that would boot to any > OS. My goal was to move Corel Linux's lilo from the MBR to its boot > partition so that I could add Debian and control everything with Win > NT's boot manager. > > I thought I had a p

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-05 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Lane Lester wrote: > So I bit the bullet and reinstalled Corel Linux from scratch, and at > least now I can run both it and Win 98 again. But that leaves me once > again under the domination of Corel Linux's lilo with no way to add > another Linux. Huh?

MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-05 Thread Lane Lester
For several hours I've been without a system that would boot to any OS. My goal was to move Corel Linux's lilo from the MBR to its boot partition so that I could add Debian and control everything with Win NT's boot manager. I thought I had a procedure figured out that would work... I was wrong. I