Re: tlug: install problems

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Chad Smith wrote:

>  I have installed Linux 6.2, and it has conflicted with my Windows NT.
>  It would not boot after this, it said inaccessible boot device. I
>  tried to delete the partition with NT on it and reinstall. I could
>  not do this until I deleted Redhat and then installed Windows, but
>  the computer still boots up into Linux even though I deleted redhat.
>  I think that NT has to be the first OS installed, if not please let
>  me know. I think the LILO may be in the MBR, I may have installed it
>  there the first time. I have reinstalled Linux to try to access the
>  MBR and see if it is. How can I tell if it is there, How can I get my
>  computer to boot into NT again? Thanks in advance for any help. 

You probably had an wrong lilo setup. Before installing lilo make sure
that you have a working linux boot floppy so that you can boot from
floppy and correct the lilo setup, if necessary. 

Anyway, if linux was running, you could have uninstalled lilo as

lilo -u

to get the original mbr back. 

Now you can try booting msdos from floppy and run `fdisk /mbr' to
restore the msdos mbr. 

Selva

P.S. Could you please send your mails as plain text (without html) with
line breaks?

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