Whoa...someone here thinks I have an answer..amazing...hee hee, I have fooled VictorKaum, yeah! *gleefully rubs hands together* Tomorrow, the world! The world I say!...

*pause* Right...so you're getting a 'frozen' session for booting up. I'm not quite sure what you mean by Stage 1/2. Stage 1 I can guess is the POST with Stage 2 being Lilo (in your situation) and you pick the operating system. Is this right? If so, keep reading, if not...write back and tell me what you've got.

10 to 1 you might've blown away the configuration file for linux, which would have pointed to the windows directory as well. This file (I'm guessing on your distro) is called lilo.conf and sits in /etc (/etc/lilo.conf). If that's the problem, it needs to be repropogated (I believe when you run lilo -v, which rebuilds it, it saves a copy). To do this, what you need to do is take your linux startup disk (you made one, right?) and use it to start up....you'll be in effective 'single user mode' where you have a very simple shell to do some work. Since your problem lies in /etc and doesn't require any mounted filesystems, you won't have to run much.

1: Start the machine with your linux startup disk.
2: Follow on-screen prompts to enter a repair mode (something like that, you might need root's password for security though).
3: When you get to the shell level (something like # or $, depending on distro), run 'lilo -v'.

That should do it. If not, something else got fux0red and I need more information. What file did you get rid of, if you remember? Hint: if you don't know what it does, it's safe enough to keep until you can find out.

Thanks and I hope this didn't confuse/lose you, because then that'd mean you're lost and so am I and whatever will we do then!? *kidding* We'll get your problems fixed!