Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Michael Merten
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 10:48:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > > They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; > > making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... >

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; > making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... This is exactly what you shouldn't install LILO in the MBR. The Debian

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 02:03:40 +0200, "Jean-Yves F. Barbier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; >making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... You are not doing Linux or yourself any favors by disp

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:53:38 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I purchased my PC, it came with Win95 preloaded. After >installing linux on it, lilo did back up the original bootsector and >stored it in /boot, but over the past two years, and after a couple of >Linux reinst

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Jor-el wrote: > > Hi, > > When I purchased my PC, it came with Win95 preloaded. After > installing linux on it, lilo did back up the original bootsector and > stored it in /boot, but over the past two years, and after a couple of > Linux reinstalls, I lost the original bootsector (blush).