> At 07:19 PM 3/24/98 -0800, Anthony F. Wright wrote:
> >I would appreciate some advice in order to install RedHat.
> >My problem appears to be, if I mount LILO in the MBR it will overwrite
> >my Disk Manager and I won't have any drives available. If I install LILO
> >in Linux's root I will still require a boot manager to access LILO which
> >in turn will probably need MBR access - HELP!!!
>
> If you are paranoid about your boot records, make a Linux Lilo boot
> discette. Then, whenever you want to boot to Linux, you stick in the
> discette. Actually, the discette needs just Lilo, and the boot continues
> from your hard disk.
>
>
> If you installed Lilo on the hard disk, if you have a Win boot diskette,
> you should always be able to boot with diskette, and type sys c: to
> reinstall the boot sector. No garantee for this advice!! I believe there
> are special descriptions and commands in Redhat how to fix boot sectors, too.
Actually you will need to type 'fdisk /mbr to get your dos MBR back...
-Paul
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