Re: Booting problem

[Karan Girotra <karan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, you wrote:
Hye
yes ur mbr has been overwritten by winduhs .
boot to linux using a boot diskette (can be made frm the images supllied on the
pcq cd) specifying ur linux partition 
vmlinuz root=/dev/hdan   
where 
vmlinuz = name of boot image 
hdan = location of ur root partition (assuming it is on ur first hard disk )

and then rewrite the mbr by using 
lilo -v 

bye
>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
>
Regards ..
Karan Girotra,                       
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi  
91-011-6864507                         
91-011-6862034 
Icq# 25636434

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