[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[David Buddrige]

Thanks for everyone's help.... unfortuntately, my win95 hard-drive was
corrupted after trying to change it back to NORMAL... messed around with
it for hours last night... bummer...

I wound up using some old Norton disk-tools to recover what I could, but
it was preety far gone by that time... in the end I had to blow it away
and start-fresh... 8-(

Ok, lesson-learned.... Changing BIOS Settings is bad for health of Win95
file-systems... *sigh*... another reason to use linux I guess... ;-)

Thanks heaps to everyone who emailed me.. 8-)

Dave...

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> Dale Baker wrote:
> >
> > At 08:41  7/02/99 +0800, you wrote:
> >
> > I have 98, NT and RH 5.2 installed across 2 IDE drives here with system
> > commander, although you I'll have to buy it its well worth the money imo
> > and will solve the booting problems.
> >
> > >jon kitchin wrote:
> > >
> > >> some SCSI disks fail with the LI...
> > >> the word "linear" is meant to tell the LILO program
> > >> that the HDD is using LBA which is short for
> > >> linear block addressing
> > >> it doesn't seem to be needed for IDE HDDs
> > >> not sure what you are using
> > >
> > >I'm just using 2 IDE Hard-drives... no scsi at all... 8-(... thanks though...
> > >8-)
> > >
> > >Dave...
> > >
> 
> Umm.... WOAH....
> By changing your drive type from whatever to LBA in the bios, you have
> changed the effective geometry of the drive. Windows will not function
> until, either, you change it back to what it was, or re-fdisk and format
> the drive, then re-install windows.
> I had this happen to me once. Could not figure it out, then realised I
> had
> changed the way dos looks at the physical drive. It could not nut out
> the
> re-structure of the partition.
> 
> BTW, I'm using Lilo on 3 machines. all dual booting linux/windows of
> some sort
> and I have never had a problem. Lilo is not that simple to configure,
> but once
> you get the hang of it, it's easy. I even used it on Non-lba drives,
> though that
> was a while ago, I don't recall having to many problems.
> 
> The easiest way around this is to borrow a computer of a friend, zip up
> your whole
> windows drive onto thier machine over a network, except the swap file.
> and re-fdisk/
> format in lba mode, then put a basic install of windows on, with
> networking, and unzip
> your old drive partition into a new directory. Then re-boot in dos mode,
> blitz the new
> windows install with a deltree, and move the whole drive back to where
> it was.
> Scandisk, and sys c:, and she should be apples.
> It has worked for me several times anyway, and if you run into a heap of
> strife, I'd be
> happy to roll round and give you a hand.
> 
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