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  1. September 22nd, 2003, 06:14 AM #1
    theravenous
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    Question L I L O question

    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?
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  2. September 22nd, 2003, 06:18 AM #2
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    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
    http://www.bootdisk.com/
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  3. September 22nd, 2003, 06:23 AM #3
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    Thank you muchly I will give it a try. I appreciate the help
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  4. September 22nd, 2003, 06:25 AM #4
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    Re: L I L O question

    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?
    Is either OS coming up at all or does it freeze on LILO?

    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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  6. September 22nd, 2003, 06:28 AM #5
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    Yea neither OS loads, it freezes on LILO. well actually it freezes on "LI" .
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  7. September 22nd, 2003, 06:47 AM #6
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    Likely thing that happened is that lilo screwed up during installation and didn't install properly, just reinstall or try boot disk
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  8. September 22nd, 2003, 06:59 AM #7
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    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.
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  9. September 22nd, 2003, 07:14 AM #8
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    Thanks for the help, all.
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  11. September 22nd, 2003, 07:59 AM #9
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    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
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  12. September 22nd, 2003, 05:27 PM #10
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    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.
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