From: Sebastian Leske (sleske@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 00:35:38 CEST
Hi,
[...]
> > So you should install lilo to /dev/hda but
> > you would now need to make a new boot record for the windows (You
> > can do this by booting with a windows rescue floppy and typing "sys
> > c:" and "fidsk /MBR" thoise commands will probably kill the lilo,
> > so it is a good idea to have loadlin or boot floppy for mu before
> > doing this.
>
> in order to reinstall the windows boot record, only fdisk /mbr is
> neccessary, the sys c: command is only needed if you lost command.com
> and msdos.sys
I think you are confusing the partition boot record and the master boot
record (MBR). The windows boot record (the one that actually loads the
windows kernel) is in the partition boot record (of the C: partition),
and it is (re)installed with the 'sys' command (which also does more,
as you say).
fdisk /MBR will reinstall the standard MS/DOS master boot record, which
will just boot the active partition (if exactly one partition is marked
active, otherwise it will hang).
So if lilo was installed to hda1 (the partition boot record), then sys
C: would indeed be neccessary.
Greetings,
Sebastian Leske
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