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Booting and Boot Managers
8.7.3 Restoring the MBR of Windows 2000
Boot from the Windows 2000 CD and press
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R then
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C in the next menu to
start the recovery console. Select your Windows 2000 installation from the
list and enter the administrator password. At the input prompt, enter the
command FIXMBR and confirm with y when asked to do so. Then reboot
the computer with exit.
8.8 Creating Boot CDs
Problems may arise when attempting to boot a system with the LILO boot
manager configured with YaST. The creation of a system boot disk fails
with more recent SUSE LINUX versions because the space available on a
floppy disk is no longer sufficient for the start-up files. Instead, create a
boot CD. This solution is only a work-around. It should normally be pos-
sible to configure LILO properly. Refer to the documentation about this
subject in /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/README, or read the man
pages man lilo.conf and man lilo.
It is possible to create a bootable CD-ROM containing the Linux start-up
files if your system has an installed CD writer.
It is easiest to create a bootable CD with the ISOLINUX boot manager. The
SUSE installation CDs are also made bootable with isolinux.
1. Boot the installed system first using the following alternate proce-
dure:
Boot from the installation CD or DVD as for installation.
Choose the preselected option ‘Installation’ during the boot se-
quence.
Choose the language and keyboard map next.
In the following menu, choose ‘Boot installed system’.
The root partition is automatically detected and the system is
booted from it.
2. Install syslinux with YaST.
3. Open a root shell. The following commands create a temporary direc-
tory and copy the files required for the booting of the Linux system
(the isolinux boot loader as well as the kernel and the initrd) into it:
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