Hi Greg, >>>>> "GW" == Greg Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GW> Uwe Nestmann wrote: >> I have the 505 FX (German win98 pre-installed) GW> .... ;-) >> now the system does not (cold-)boot any >> longer, because it "cannot find the operating system". GW> This is most likely because your aborted install changed GW> the active boot partition on your hard drive. Until you GW> are ready to try installing Linux again, you can GW> probably get things back to the way they were by booting GW> from the Windows startup floppy and going to MS-DOS GW> mode, then using FDISK to change the active partition GW> back to the one with Windows on it. After that you GW> should be able to cold boot Windows. Yes, that is almost exactly what I managed to do a couple of minutes ago, however, it seems that I was too stupid to use the windows rescue floppy, instead I used "Execute a shell" from within another Debina install attempt. Good that the CDROM is automatically recognized by the BIOS ... == Uwe ==
