Topic: tech help sources

[steven lewis]

e-smith has been my intro to linux. as a result i have installed Red Hat 7.0 on my laptop dual booting with Win 98. i did this to ascend the learning curve of linux. recently i was forced to reload win 98. i lost my dual boot choice screen. my partions are there still. i realize this is not directly e-smith, but any help is apreciated.

[Miguel Simon]

Boot your system from your RedHat CD and rescue your system. Once you have into your machine, run lilo.

[John Helms]

My wife also had an experience like this recently. In her case she was running Win98 and Mandrake7.1 in a dual boot arrangement. One day while using Windows, she decided to scan her system for viruses. Norton had been loaded prior to loading Mandrake, so it popped up a message regarding the master boot record and would she like to correct it. Not knowing the implications she said yes. Voila! No more Mandrake boot. Luckily when we installed Mandrake, we created a boot disk. We booted off of that, ran lilo, and it corrected the problem. Needless to say, she is MUCH more careful as to what she says yes to while in Windows.