----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:08 PM Subject: Small faux pas with LILO
> Hi, > > I have a PC with two hard drives, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb > > I installed Linux on /dev/hdb and inadvertantly set boot=/dev/hda1 instead > of /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf and now I'm having trouble booting that > partition (a Windows 95 partition). Have I done inrepairable damage to that > partition or can I recover from this boo boo? got a Win95 boot disk? try running 'fdisk /mbr' and rebooting... it should replace the MBR with a Win95 compatible one. (you'll have to use a Linux boot disk to boot your linux system and attempt to configure LILO again though)
