[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Is Screwing Up Windows ;-)

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Jaime Villela wrote:
> 
> Problem:  I'm trying to install Linux on my system and it keeps screwing
> up the partitioning so that Win98 will no longer boot.
> 
> Setup:  One 4 GB hard drive has Win98 along with seperate partitions for
> swap, data and applications.  One 1 GB holds both linux swap and root
> partitions.
> 
> Description:  I used to have Caldera 2.3 on my linux drive and both OSes
> booted with no problems.  Last night I decided to wipe away Caldera and
> give Mandrake 7.0 a chance (bad move).  The installation went okay but
> when I tried to boot to Win98 (via Boot Magic) I got a "non-system disk"
> error.  The error would only go away when I deleted the Linux partitions
>

did you tell it to install lilo?
if so where?

did you tell it to do anything on the MBR?