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I have two partitions on my hard drive, and i recently reinstalled windows 98, and it apparently wrote over the MBR where i had LILO installed. Thus, I cannot access ...
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- 07-23-2003 #1Just Joined!
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LILO written over, no working bootdisk
I have two partitions on my hard drive, and i recently reinstalled windows 98, and it apparently wrote over the MBR where i had LILO installed. Thus, I cannot access my linux partition at all, because my boot disk somehow isn't working.
Is there anyway for me to manage to get into my linux partition?
I am unaware if it is possible to access any files through windows.
I have tried to load linux via tomsrtbt (a group of standalone linux files that load on their own) but i still can't manage to load LILO again, because I don't have the lilo.conf or boot.b (i dont know what boot.b does either)
thanks
- 07-23-2003 #2Linux Newbie
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if the filesystem on the linux part is swap you can't get the files in win.
Thanks v much
\"Anything bigger than my ego i want it caught and killed\"- Zaphod Beeblebrox
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Win xp home, SuSE 8.2 and Slackware 9.1
- 07-23-2003 #3Linux Engineer
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If you have your distro's CD, I'm pretty shure there is a kernel on the CD wich you can use to boot up.
Also, bootdisk(s).com
Good Luck
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