On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Henry Ficher wrote:
[or rather, heavily overqueted, and THEN wrote]:
> Record to a known condition. fdisk /mbr will save you ('r ass) more than
> once. I mostly use Norton Utilities Rescue Disk, but there could be others
> just as good I don't know of.
excellent emergency floppies from VA-Linux. why not use free software?
> Once I installed RedHat 6.1 and allowed it to do a Gnome Workstation type
> installation. Bad thing to do in a multi-boot system. It installed lilo,
> whithout asking, in the MBR and not in the Linux boot partition. So fdisk
> /mbr and/or NU Rescue and I was back on my feet.
lilo -u and you would not have lost your access to the linux partition.
as for "gnome wokrstation" defaults, it has nothing to do with lilo
locations, you can choose that manually at the end of the
install. unless you use the completly automatic install which I never
dare use. I hate it when computers think they know what I want.
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