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boot record changed
I have encountered an interesting problem that I would very much appreciate
any feedback on.
I am using System Commander with Redhat 5.0 and windows 95 on separate
drives and have been successful prior to win 98. During the win 98
upgrade, I had to completely reinstall everthing. After SC was installed,
I booted up and selected linux as usual. I opened linux and it was fine.
This time...when I rebooted to get back into windows, I got a message that
there was no active partition or bootable HDD.
I then rebooted to a start up floppy and used fdisk to set the first drive
(win 98) active. I rebooted again and SC came up. I selected win 98
and it started and ran as normal.
I repeated this process (reboot-linux-reboot-'no active HDD
error'-reboot-set drive C active-reboot-win98) several times. Each time I
went to linux I ran LILO config to try and reinstall the linux boot info to the
linux partition, and try any other options. Nothing changed the original
condition.
Do I need to edit the linux bootup to
prevent it from wiping/altering the boot record I want? Has anyone done
this?
Has anyone else had the same problem with System Commander?
I also have Norton Utilities 3 on win 98. It detects the altered boot
record and tries to 'fix' it but keeps crashing. Any information about
boot records I would greatly appreciate.
Also....Linus Torvalds gave a great interview in the last Boot magazine if
anyone is interested.
Cheers.