[plug] restoring MBR

[Brad Campbell]

dynamix wrote:
> 
> hiya..
> any ideas gratefully welcomed...
> I have two drives one with redhat 6.1 (hdc)and the other with
>  win98(hda)
>  In one those fiddle factor attacks I decided to let lilo go on to the mbr
> of
>  hda ( win 98)
>  I have a rack system so this wasnt really  necessary however I wanted to
> try
>  it as a dual boot .
>  This has proven to be great except when I need to replace one the drives in
>  the rack temporarily .
>  I need to return to individual booting procedures for each drive.
>  I have read many differing views on restoring the MBR for windows and some
>  tales of terror have me a wee bit nervous.
>  So I am defering the question to you guys...any ideas on the best way to go
>  abosut restoring win98 MBR and
>  LILO on the red hat drive without a full repartition etc???
>  Dez
> >

Windows is easy, boot of a windows floppy and do an fdisk /mbr to
restore it..
Don't forget to mark your windows partition active in fdisk..
Lilo is not much harder, but I use Debian and have no idea how the
redhat resuce
disk works.. if there is one..

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Brad....
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