dual boot with 2 drives

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 20:59:06 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:53 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> 
> But it can throw Windows. The easiest way of removing the Linux magic
> from an MBR and putting a vanilla Microsoft one back in place is to
> boot off a DOS floppy and type
> 
> FDISK /MBR
> 
> ... if of course your machine /has/ a floppy. If not, you can do this
> from a Windows XP recovery console, but I can't remember the command
> offhand. It's something like
> 
> FIXBOOT
> 
> followed by
> 
> FIXLDR

You can also download opendos, install it to a CD and boot from that.
That is what I had to do to flash my bios. It was an "experience" to
have to dink with config.sys and autoexec.bat again. One I really do not
wish to repeat. I had actually forgot about all those settings and had
to burn several CD's until I got it right. We need a 16bit version of
Linux. <chuckles> Ric

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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