Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Henry Ficher wrote:
>
> [or rather, heavily overqueted, and THEN wrote]:
Sorry. But I did snip a bit. :-\
>
>
> > 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?
>
You said it. Excellent.
>
> > 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.
>
I didn't lose access to the Linux Partition. The Gnome Workstation install
screwed up my Windows logical partitions and overwrote the MBR.
> as for "gnome wokrstation" defaults, it has nothing to do with lilo
> locations, you can choose that manually at the end of theinstall. unless you
> use the completly automatic install which I never dare use. I hate it when
> computers think they know what I want.
Me too. That's why I always do the custom install - is the only one that asks
you where to put Lilo. The Gnome WS install doesn't, which is nearly fatal if
you have a boot manager like System Commander or Boot Magic.
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