Re: Booting problem

["Arvind H Kamath" <hakamath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi kunal,
  Probably your MBR is overwritten. There is however a solution for your problem. What you must do is to use the utilities provided with linux. If you use the CDROM from where you installed Redhat 5.2, in the dosutils directory you will find a utility loadlin. Also in the autoboot subdirectory of dosutils you will find a generic linux kernel(vmlinuz).Boot using this kernel using the command
  loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/whatever_it_is_on_your_disk
Then once in linux, login as root and run
  root# /sbin/lilo
All will be well once again.

Happy linuxing once again.
Arvind
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:53:28   Kunal Shah wrote:
>I have firt installed win95 and then redhat linux 5.2.so my systems was
>runnig on both os.
>now because of virus i have to format my windows partition.
>I have formatted my windows partiton and installed win98 on it.
>But now it is not prompting lilo:
>so now i can not access my linux partition though it is still there.
>I haven't use fdisk of windows or linux.
>I have simply boot my computer with dos6.22 bootable cd and then give format
>command to c:
>afterwords i have installed win98
>I don't have any bootable for linux
>What is the problem is my mbr changed?
>Kunal
>
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