On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 16:51, J.White wrote: > Hi all, > > A sad story: One of the guys had a dual-boot Windouch2000/RedHat7.3 > PC in which the Windows bit became unbootable in an unrecoverable (by > me anyway) fashion. So I set about to reinstall W2k on the NTFS partition > (after using the still-functional Linux to save all his files off the defunct > W2k bit onto CD - I did expect something like to following to occur). > > Somewhat to my surprise (as I've heard many times that one should > always install Win first then Lin as otherwise Windows will overwrite > the master boot record and upset Linux) it was still offering me the > choice of OS after the new W2k install. Unfortunately, bloody W2k > wasn't recognizing the audio, so we decided (rather than mess about > looking for drivers) to move up to WinXP. > > Sadly, the Windows XP install did bugger up the boot, so now I have a > lovely WXP that instantly recognized all the hardware correctly, but > have lost access to Linux. Is there a simple way to reconstitute the > dual-boot? Or do I need to reload Linux? Not a serious issue, it > could be construed as a golden opportunity to upgrade Linux too. > I'm just curious really, (and as I vaguely recall some agro with the > original Linux setup it might save me a bit of time). > > Cheers, Jan Hi Jan, You definitely need to boot into Linux and if you had lilo boot loader originally just run /sbin/lilo as root. I think original /etc/lilo.conf should be fine if you have xp installed where NT was. Best regards, Denis.
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