Win2k dual boot recovery help

At 10:40 AM 10/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>There sure is. Did you make a boot disk when you installed linux? If you did
>then go ahead and do the MBR restore with the Windows disk. Next boot into
>linux with your Linux boot disk and use LILO. I have a dual boot with
>WinME(/dev/hda1) and RedHat 7.3(/dev/hda5) with LILO installed to the MBR.
>
>I've not used grub but I know this way works.
>
>Bart

Thanks for the reply, Bart.

I know that with RH and GRUB installed to the MBR will work from the first
installation with the "dos-ish" Windows versions (95,98,ME). However,
Windows 2000 is a different beast and even LILO in the MBR will not work
with Windows 2000, by default. I have now learned this by experience.

What I want to accomplish to restore the MBR for Windows 2000 to be happy
but not have to completely re-install Linux. All the HOWTOs and docs I
have found so far assume a new Linux install to dual boot with Win2k but I
am not starting new. I want to reconfigure it to dual boot without
re-installing.

Hmm... I guess I'll have to work on adapting the docs that use a fresh
installation.

Alan