originally I only had win98 on my PC, I wanted to install redhat 7.2 so I created a second partition to install it to, so far no problems, when booting LILO started up nicely. Due to problems with win98 I had to reformat my first partition. I no longer wanted to run win98 and decided to upgrade to win2k (I needed to reinstall win98 first otherwise I couldn't install win2k, this is all done in my first partition). After installing win2k I realised that I probably lost my LILO. After reboot I got the bootmanager of win2k which gave me the choice to between win98 and win2k. I can still go to redhat with a bootdisk but I want to get LILO back !!! I searched computing to find a suitable solution, one was to update redhat without choosing any updates, normally it should reinstall LILO but it didn't work because LILO will only be reinstalled if the kernel has been modified. What else can I do ???? I don't have a lot of experience with redhat and linux because I'm just starting to learn it. If someone knows a solution please let me know !!! thx P.S.: sorry for the long text but I want to give as much info as possible

I think you will have to purchase a third party boot manager.

I've never dual'ed Win2K with anything, but I suspect getting it to work with Linux is just like getting WinNT to work with Linux. Essentially you use 'dd' to make a copy of your Linux boot sector. Copy this to C:\. Update the Win bootloader text file to have another option (the linux option). There is a 'howto' for WinNT and Linux which describes this all in detail. I don't think you need a 3rd party boot manager (although some of them are quite nice). Good Luck, Guy

Serach Google for XOSL as they have a free boot manager that works very well.

I had a tough time with boot managers, and decided to stick with boot disks for linux, and win 3.1, and let win 98 boot "as is" when the machine is turned on, and no boot disk is inserted. I have Windows 98, Windows 3.1 (MS-DOS 6.21), Mandrake 8 on the master 20 GB HDD, and Redhat on the 2 GB slave drive. All of these are in separate partitions, and boot up perfectly with boot disks. In the morning, when I just want some weather before going to work, I use Windows 98, boots quicker than the Linux's, and is more powerful than win 3.1.

http://www.poopoccurs.com/linux/dualboot.html Hopefully this will help with some minnor modifications you may be able to get to your Linux install without LILO being in the MBR. If you can get in with the floppy you may be able to follow the steps on my page. They leave explicit info out and just give the steps. On my "triboot" sys with 98/xp/rh7.2 I can actually go into a boot loop by choosing rh from the NT loader and DOS from LILO. Kinda funny huh. On my XP/rh7.2 box with an NTFS partition it works fine. OR: Just came to me. There are programs that will copy your MBR onto floppy just in case something bad happens and you can restore it with no data loss later. You could try to fdisk/mbr and restore LILO back to the MBR and if you could boot 98 from lilo before you may have a chance for it to boot into 98 and read the boot.ini file that maybe linux sees as the same boot loader for 98. That what looks like happens above. Humm..more testing on the way. before the OR above will not hurt anything to at least try, before you try anything else. Most third party apps suck doing this job that can be with the OS itself. MY test site: poopoccurs.com

I have exactly the same problem. I purchased System Commander 7 though. That did not help either and the folks at VCOM were not very helpful either. Carey, I hope that you know what you are doing because I sure don't...