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Re: [LUG] Catch 22 !!



what distro ? with SuSE you can boot directly from the install CD's and 
then from the set up app (yast) boot your old system. Of course you should 
really have made a boot/rescue disk before you installed windows :). Dont 
know if other distros can help you out in the same way.

-vern

> I recently (for my sins) installed Windows 98 (again) of course it did 
> it's fave trick of doing fdisk /mbr during install.... how the hell do i 
> get lilo back ??
> 
> Catch 22 = Can't load linux to run lilo to load linux !!
> 
> Is there anything that i can do (besides run throught all the cd's again 
> ) ?? to stop this happening, or at least a quick restore program ??
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Neil
> 
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