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acccckkkk
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,20:49 QUOTE
Also, if I were to add a line to the windows boot file, such as:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)="Damn Small Linux"
Would that be able to boot DSL ?
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,21:41 QUOTE
I booted with the win98 boot disk, typed ctrl-F5 to go to the command prompt, typed fdisk /mbr, and nothing really seemed to happening.  Is this because dos can't see ntfs partitions?  Any other suggestions
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,22:33 QUOTE
Did you reboot to see if it restored your boot record? There is not a whole lot of activity after the fdisk /mbr, although your disk drive light should blip for a milisecond.

I seem to remember using an old Win98SE boot disk to restore the boot record. I dont think the boot record is NTFS.
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accckkk
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,22:47 QUOTE
Yeah, I rebooted afterwords and got the same message about a corrupted dll, although...lilo didn't boot I believe so I can't run dsl from hd now either :(
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,23:02 QUOTE
Well, my knowlege was a bit behind on MS OS's. Apparently the boot sector setup is different for an NTFS disk than a FAT system. You need to restore your MBR with the fdisk of whatever type system is on the windows partition.

You can also remove the liloboot with the command

lilo -u

That is supposed to return your boot record to what it was.
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