[Sussex] DualBooting

[Phil Slade]

Thanks John !
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Crowhurst" <fyremoon at fyremoon.net>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] DualBooting


>
> > Can anyone advise on reinstalling my flaky Win98se back onto partition
> > C, without disturbing Lilo, or Mandrake 8.2 on D.
> > Infantile comments not required.
> > regards  Phil.
>
> No, windows rewrites the MBR when it gets reinstalled. You can use a Linux
> boot cd to boot, mount and chroot into your Mandrake partition, then run
> lilo to reinstall lilo into the MBR. Your lilo configuration is stored in
> /etc/lilo.conf and will simply be applied on execution of the lilo
> command.
>
> Windows will not overwrite a Linux partition unless you tell it to via
fdisk.
>
> Make necessary backups of essential data as usual, disasters can happen!
>
> --
> John
>
>
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