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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was given a Kubuntu 5.04 CD as a way to restore
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>LILO loader that was made obsolete by Partition
Magic.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking at the MBR, and the fact that it uses INT
13</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with AH = 2, I now realize that, despite its use of
LDA,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it must be one of the LILO versions that expects
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linux partition to be in the first 6 gig of the
drive, which</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>explains why my C: partition was too small to
install</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ghost 9.0 (which turned out to be unnecessary,
because</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ghost 2003 boots and runs in DOS mode, which
makes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a lot more sense!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, without a valid LILO, I can't boot either
Win2K</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or RHL, and Symantec's advice to use FSISK /MBR
shows</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>how concerned they are with my ability to get back
into</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>my Linux installation!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I even knew the original offset of / from C:, I
could probably</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hack out new MBR code, albeit very slowly, but
without that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>information, I don't know the offset from the start
of the /</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>partition that contains the code to jump to once
it's loaded.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any advice that's superior to that of
Symantec? Thanks</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>