multi-boot Win98 and Corel LINUX - lost boot menu

multi-boot Win98 and Corel LINUX - lost boot menu

Post by Captain Avoca » Tue, 02 May 2000 04:00:00



Dear UNIX brethren -

I installed the latest Corel Linux on my Win98 PC, and I liked the
dual-boot menu that would come up automatically at power-on.

However, unstable little OS that Win98 is, "got corrupted" according
to the jokers in the office I work with. Couldn't fix it, so I
re-installed Win98. NOW I lost the dual-boot startup menu, as Win98
decided IT was the * OS and now I can't boot to Linux (it's
still there on a separate physical drive).

Is there an easy thing that I'm missing in the docs to bring back my
dual-boot menu? I tried going into FDISK to set active partitions, but
no luck. Appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance!

CA

 
 
 

multi-boot Win98 and Corel LINUX - lost boot menu

Post by Chris Matter » Tue, 02 May 2000 04:00:00


Boot off your Linux emergency boot diskette (or your Linux CD-ROM if you
got a bootable CD) and rerun LILO.

--
                                Chris Mattern


> Dear UNIX brethren -

> I installed the latest Corel Linux on my Win98 PC, and I liked the
> dual-boot menu that would come up automatically at power-on.

> However, unstable little OS that Win98 is, "got corrupted" according
> to the jokers in the office I work with. Couldn't fix it, so I
> re-installed Win98. NOW I lost the dual-boot startup menu, as Win98
> decided IT was the * OS and now I can't boot to Linux (it's
> still there on a separate physical drive).

> Is there an easy thing that I'm missing in the docs to bring back my
> dual-boot menu? I tried going into FDISK to set active partitions, but
> no luck. Appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance!

> CA


 
 
 

multi-boot Win98 and Corel LINUX - lost boot menu

Post by frogge » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00


Just run fdisk from dos and change the active partition to
the Linux partition.

--frogger

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