XP killed my mbr

goldie1 · 06-13-2004, 03:12 AM

Hello all,

Installed XP on one of my partitions and it killed my MBR. Can someone direct me to where I can find info on making a rescue disk to mount linux to rerun lilo? And a place where I can download this disk? I need a boot and a root disk, right?

Thanks!

TigerOC · 06-13-2004, 03:18 AM

Use your install cd. There is a rescue option (F3 ? at the boot prompt). Just look at the options. Boot back into linux. Edit Lilo for the XP partition and then run Lilo.

goldie1 · 06-13-2004, 03:22 AM

I don't currently own a install cd nor do I have a cdrom drive. Sorry, I should have added that in the OP. .. Need to do it via floppy..

thanks!

BittaBrotha · 06-13-2004, 04:49 AM

You can go to Debian's website and create floppy disk images.

atmguy · 06-14-2004, 05:54 AM

First install XP with a small partition.
Install Linux with lilo without destroying the XP partition.
Then create the Windows extended partions.

These steps have always worked for me.

goldie1 · 06-23-2004, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by atmguy
First install XP with a small partition.
Install Linux with lilo without destroying the XP partition.
Then create the Windows extended partions.

These steps have always worked for me.

Right, I however already have Linux installed. I installed XP after linux. I have tried the rescue disks mentioned above however the root partition is mounted read-only when I do something such as 'rescue root=/dev/hda2' therefore i cant run lilo... Not sure what I should try next.

TigerOC · 06-24-2004, 01:36 AM

Don't use the rescue option just use do an ordinary boot.

goldie1 · 06-24-2004, 01:44 AM

Well, this problem is resolved. I ended up just getting a knoppix disk and chroot'ing. Somehow hda2 turned into swap and hda3 turned into my root. It was the other way around before. That would explain my problem. I changed them around in fstab and then ran lilo to restore mbr. Thanks for help guys!