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meo

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Posted: May 04 2005,09:24

Hybrid!

You can recover the original mbr using the win 98 boot-disk. Let it boot and give the following command: fdisk /mbr and just reboot as if nothing has happened.

Keep on having fun,
meo

P.S. If you have just one win-partition it will most probably be possible to boot both win 98 and dsl from lilo D.S.

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Posted: May 06 2005,23:46

I am late to this thread, but, when you install lilo to the MBR of the boot drive, it finds all other OSs on your system and presents you with the boot options at the next boot. If this didn't happen, you might not have installed lilo correctly or you don't have a proper DSL installation.

Let me know if you want an example DSL lilo.conf with a Win98 and a DSL boot option.

Good luck, jimbo

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Hi everybody
I´m installing dsl on a pentium 100 with 80 mb of ram. I used the floppy to boot and dsl recognized tthe iso i extract to disk.
I have a swap created and a 1GB ext2 ready to do the hdisntall.During the dsl-hdinstall script, i'm prompted to start the execution of mkliloboot. In the same pc i have windows98 installed. Will the mkliloboot destroy the ability to boot to windows98? With options/configuration is required so i can boot both the OS's(windows98 and dsl)?

Thanks

sum dude
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Posted: May 08 2005,07:22

did you run the lilo command as root after setting up lilo.conf?
if not, then that is very likely your problem (methinks).

As for fixing the mbr for win98, it's quite simple. boot from a win98 boot floppy ( a real boot floppy, not a startup disk made from inside windows). Once you're at a dos command prompt, (an A:\ prompt), type:
fdisk /mbr
That will wipe the mbr for you and the next time you start your machine, win98 will replace its entry in the mbr.
WARNING: this method assumes that win98 is located in the active partition!
EXTRA WARNING: DO NOT do this on an NT, 2000 or XP machine!

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