[plug] restoring MBR;;;thanx :)

[dynamix]

Thanks Brad...
i had read about the floppy option thouhg someone else wrote a process much
more involved and strongly advised against it..
thanx..dez
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Campbell <brad at seme.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] restoring MBR


> 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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