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I have a comp with win98 and mandrake installed on it. my problem is that the last time i went to reboot and lilo came up, only the L I nshowed and I have noway to choose between linux or windows. And I havnt been able to reformat or get into fdisk either to try to resolve the situation. any suggestions?
Here is a site where you can download windos or linux boot disks. If you start on of these you should be able to run fdisk and start fresh. not sure if that is what you want to do as it seems like over kill :D
http://www.bootdisk.com/
Thank you muchly I will give it a try. I appreciate the help
Is either OS coming up at all or does it freeze on LILO?Quote:
Originally posted here by theravenous
I have a comp with win98 and mandrake installed on it. my problem is that the last time i went to reboot and lilo came up, only the L I nshowed and I have noway to choose between linux or windows. And I havnt been able to reformat or get into fdisk either to try to resolve the situation. any suggestions?
But I agree with PoSer, try a boot disk, up to you which OS. Maybe a configuration files is screwed up somewhere? Or, worst case senario, reinstall maybe? Beyond that, I'm sorry to say I'm not much help.
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Yea neither OS loads, it freezes on LILO. well actually it freezes on "LI" . :(
Likely thing that happened is that lilo screwed up during installation and didn't install properly, just reinstall or try boot disk :)
I would try a BIOS update or see if you can go in and start from there to fdisk. Sometimes you can catch it from there. I know that seems really primative but I wanted to try and give something to the community.
Thanks for the help, all. :)
LI: This is caused either by geometry mismatch or by moving /etc/lilo/boot.b without running the map installer.
there are more posibilities ;)
http://linux.about.com/library/bl/op...ewbie4.1.2.htm
or
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documen...WTO/a1405.php3
This will help if you are using LILO:
go to /etc/lilo.conf open it on a text editor:
label=linux ///remove any that you don't want
label=windows
.
.
.
default=linux //boots if no option is selected
save lilo.conf
To check your changes without rebooting go to a terminal, /sbin and type $lilo you should get a message about any added or deleted entries for lilo.
just enter into windows through safe mode .
and then repair it.
use the rescue disk.
verify the boot.ini file in a text editor.