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February 28th, 2004, 07:35 PM
#11
Well, I typed the commands at the A:/ prompt, but I got a "bad command" error. Could I have done something wrong configuring the boot disk? I went to another XP machine, went into "My Computer", right-clicked the floppy drive, then checked the box to format it as a boot disk. Nonetheless, it doesn't respond to those commands.
As far as LILO, the first time I tried it, I didn't compile it, so perhaps that's it. I'll keep at it.
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February 28th, 2004, 07:46 PM
#12
Ok, this what the code looks like in Boot Manager:
prompt
timeout="50"
default=winxp
boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot/b
message=/boot/message
linear
image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10"
label="linux"
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img"
read-only
root="/dev/hdb2"
append="bdc=ide-scsi"
other=/dev/hda
label=linux
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Nonetheless, I'm still given no option and it automatically boots into Linux.
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February 29th, 2004, 09:57 PM
#13
ok, i think you misunderstood cgkanchi's suggestion. do you have the windows XP install disk? or did it come installed on yuor computer? even if it came installed, they should have given you a recovery disk. put that in, then reboot your computer. it should give you the option of repair or recovery or something along those lines. it will come up with what looks like a command prompt, but it is called the recovery prompt. type "fixmbr" without the quotes. it will ssay something about if you do this you may not be able to access some partitions. say yes anyway. then reboot. it should boot in to windows XP. from there, you can go in to disk management and format the linux partitions and install another linux distro (or redhat again)...
slick
\"Look, Doc, I spent last Tuesday watching fibers on my carpet. And the whole time I was watching my carpet, I was worrying that I, I might vomit. And the whole time, I was thinking, \"I\'m a grown man. I should know what goes on my head.\" And the more I thought about it... the more I realized that I should just blow my brains out and end it all. But then I thought, well, if I thought more about blowing my brains out... I start worrying about what that was going to do to my goddamn carpet. Okay, so, ah-he, that was a GOOD day, Doc. And, and I just want you to give me some pills and let me get on with my life. \" -Roy Waller
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February 29th, 2004, 10:45 PM
#14
Actually I got the work using the Windows installation CD, doing a windows repair. The bootfix and bootmbr worked fine, but when Windows started backup, I was told the checkdisk could not be found, and it would then reboot and repeat that indefinately. So I've since disoconnected that drive and am using a new hard drive until I figure out what the deal is with that one. Any more ideas?
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