Re: Restarting Windows

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi, 

try this:

1) reload win95's MBR by typing "fdisk /mbr" from a system disk floppy

2) rerun your linux installation and don't reload any packages you wish
left as is... In my case I put lilo in the mbr...

This then gave me the usual boot prompt to choose between Window and
Linux..

Hope this helps,

Ahbaid.

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> I posted this message a while ago in a form that may not have made it clear
> that it was a question:
> 
> Recently  I tried to restart my dual-boot machine in DOS mode.  It hung.
>  So, I rebooted, pressed F8 and went for "Previous DOS...", which worked.
>  _Then_ I found I couldn't get
> back to Windows - I'd get past the Lilo boot and it would hang on 'Starting
> Windows 95'.  So I booted to Linux and had a look at the hda1 partition
> where Win95 squats.  I found that, having renamed system files to allow the
> DOS 6.22 boot, those files hadn't been restored, so Win95 couldn't load.
>  As a temporary fix, I wrote a simple script to put things back for Win95.
> 
> Now, obviously Lilo is obstructing the Win95 Boot to Previous DOS and
> Restart in DOS mode options.   This doesn't worry me hugely but is
> there a way round it?  I have Windows on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1.
> 
> Could I fix this by restoring the MBR, swapping the disks and then getting
> Lilo to map drive 80 onto 81 (and vice versa) when booting to windows?
> 
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