LILO issue

[cdtrackman]

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

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[Specmon]

If you installed Linux from a set of CD's, the first CD should have a repair option when you insert it, (in addition to install)

This repair option will let you repair the Master Boot Record.

Is easy to do.

Once you fix the MBR, and now that you have a brand new clean Windows install, make a drive image with something like Partition Magic's Drive Image.
(Store that Drive Image on a partition "other" than C:\)

Not only will you never need to reinstall Windows again, but the Drive Image that you create will also have the correct MBR and LILO so you won't lose access to your Linux installaion, should you need to restore the Windows partition.

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[Fulvio]

Once you fix the MBR, and now that you have a brand new clean Windows install, make a drive image with something like Partition Magic's Drive Image.
(Store that Drive Image on a partition "other" than C:\)

I wish I had information which you gave. I would still be using Linux, perhaps. Now, I boot into Windows, and growl when I see that I have the option to go into Linux. I was able to recover long enough to change my parameter to boot into Windows, but, never without PM.

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[Specmon]

cdtrackman:

If you have an installation CD ( I have Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1) that you can make by downloading and burning the free linux ISO's, you can easily repair your MBR and LILO. Mandrake uses LILO by default. Doesn't matter if you have Mandrake installed, it will still repair LILO.

Anyway, set your BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM, insert the first installation CD.

At the first screen, press [enter] to install, or [F1] for more options.

[F1] takes you to a 'repair option' screen. You type 'rescue' then [Enter]

Now you will see options to repair LILO or simply restore a Windows MBR.

If you want to continue using your Linux, select the first option, of course.

This is apparently a common problem you have, this and finding a string of '99's when you boot up. Easy fix if you have the Linux installation CD's

And if you don't have Drive Image for back-up purposes, it's not like you will be reinstalling Windows everyday. You are now the master of LILO bootloader and the MBR.

Hope this helps

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