From: bbfaus@wam.umd.edu (John E. Krokes) Subject: Re: How to Uninstall LILO -o How to boot D Date: 7 May 1993 09:35:01 GMT
In article <1993May7.031149.9952@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> paula@atc.boeing.com writes:
>In article 12618@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw, u8013535@cc.nctu.edu.tw () writes:
>>I use the method:
>> Boot the MSDOS, run fdisk /mbr, and then the hard disk may boot from
>>MSDOS after reset. If you want to boot linux, you have to boot from
>>floopy disk now.
>
>I installed SLS 1.02 this past weekend, and told it "Sure, go ahead!"
>when it asked if I wanted it to install Lilo. It was only later that I
>discovered to my chagrin that I now had no way to boot my DOS
>partition. I knew about holding down a key during boot and hitting tab
>for a list, but it only let me choose Linux! I read through the Lilo
>text documentation without finding an obvious solution, and have still
>not worked up my courage to try decrypting the LaTeX documentation. I
>ended up grubbing around on my disk until I found what looked like a
>copy of my original MBR in (I think) /etc/lilo. I crossed my fingers,
>offered a little prayer to the local diety, and dd'd it on top of the
>first block of /dev/hda. Now DOS boots from the hard disk, and I can
>boot Linux from floppy. (Local deity comes through again! :-)) I'll
>try reinstalling Lilo after I've had some time to figure TeX out well
>enough to read the real Lilo documentation.
>
>I'm sure Lilo is wonderful stuff, but any software I ever produce for
>Linux will come with documentation that you can read without
>infrastructure any more massive than the more(1) command. (I suppose
>some sort of smiley is appropriate here, but I'm not sure which one.
>Feel free to use your imagination.)
>
>May you always have spare cycles!
Yet another reason to ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOOTABLE DISK no matter
what OS you're using. |^}
I have a DOS boot disk or two on the shelf above my computer. If you could
boot DOS, you could have run fdisk /mbr and fixed everything up real quick.
Please take no offense if I sound like I'm lecturing, I work in a computer
lab, and it's my job to pound stuff like this into computer illiterates, and
it gets rather repetetative.
happy hacking
-Mag