[Novalug] LILO died

[Michael Hans]

That worked when I had to put Vista on it, but I couldn't get the original
XP cd install to recognize the USB drive. As it's a testing box, and I have
the vendor supplied floppy (WD Raptor 36gig) I always just feed it the
floppy and live life.

It's xp, it's only so lenient :)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> If your box is new enough to have a SATA, it must have a USB port, right?
> Format the USB as a floppy drive! Or doesn't XP grok that?
>
> JIM
>
> Michael Hans wrote:
>
>> I have an old box with a SATA drive on it and an original XP cd (no SATA
>> support), I need a floppy in my case to even install Windows (less
>> slip-streaming it into the media, which I don't even care to as the box
>> already has a floppy).
>>
>> Your right, most people don't use floppies, but surely some do on rare
>> occasions.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
>> JECottrell3 at comcast.net <mailto:JECottrell3 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Nobody uses floppies anymore.
>>
>>    JIM
>>
>>    Maxwell Spangler wrote:
>>     > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:32 -0500, Cecil999 wrote:
>>     >> I am using Ubuntu and LILO died. I still have about 30 files on
>>    the xp
>>     >> side that I would like to bring over.
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     >> Is there anyway to boot xp without LILO?
>>     >
>>     > If you just want to get into XP, you can boot into DOS via boot
>>    floppy
>>     > or boot cdrom and
>>     >
>>     >> FDISK /MBR
>>     >
>>     > Which will rewrite the master boot record with Windows code to
>>    boot up
>>     > the active partiion.
>>     >
>>     > Don't forget to set the windows partition as active with fdisk
>> before
>>     > you reboot.
>>     >
>>     > That should skip Linux altogether and go straight to Windows..
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>
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