At 03:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0100, you wrote: > >> I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on >> getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current >> WindowsNT O/S. >> >> I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course, >> had to make it active. I figured, "Well, I'm more familiar with fdisk than >> Linux's equivalent (I don't even know what the name of it is), so I'll just >> go into Windows to do the setting-of-bootableness". > >Alas, I'm afraid that Windows has probably ******d your linux partition. >You may well have to install again. The utility is fdisk. It is called >during the install process, and there is an option to change the bootable >flag of each partition. > >HTH, > >Matthew > >p.s. wait for me to get flamed before you reinstall ;) > >-- >Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > >Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society >Selwyn College Computer Support >http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ >http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ >http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ >
cfdisk will also work. In my opinion, it's a little nicer, except that it doesn't report the size of a partition in blocks (defaults to megs), which is inconvenient when you want to initialize a partition and the ext2fs util wants to know the size of partition in blocks. =========================================================== Kent West | Technology Support/ | Abilene Christian University | Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham: KC5ENO, General | ===========================================================
