[techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

[Shirrell]

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> Hi,
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> I've installed RedHat 6.1 to dual boot with Win98 using LILO.  It got
> upset and when I boot up, I get a lovely screen with 01 01 01 01 ...
> It's a Dell Dimension L500r with two EIDE drives in there, Win98 on the 
> first one and Linux occupying the second one.  Can anyone give me any
> hints as to what the booting heartattack is over?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ophey
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I found my notes with a windows 95 boot disk and indeed the
proper command to restore a master boot record is:  fdisk /mbr

Shirrell


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