LILO crash

[tkeller at helpdesk.mso.stratus.com]

Well if you want to get your windows side backup, you could boot with a
windows 95 floppy that has 'fdisk' on it and do a 'fdisk /mbr' that'll put
the master boot record back on harddrive so it'll boot to windows.
Something that you might want to look for if your getting the LI is

1. that your bios doesn't have virus protection stuff in it that prevents
things from writing in the boot sector (such as lilo)

2. That your linux partition isn't more than 1024 sectors away from the
head of the drive.  This happens a lot and is a deficincy of pc's, not
linux.

Good luck,
Tim.


On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pijus Virketis wrote:

> Well, LILO did it again. Every time I boot I get <LI> and a cursor, and
> that's it: no Win and no Linux. All utilities for reviving my MBR I've
> found on the Net seem to involve loosing all my data ... Can anyone
> suggest some way of getting out of this fix ? Are there any good
> free utils, considering that I still want Windows to be my primary
> system for now ? Thanks, 
> 
> Pijus 
> 
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