This probably won't work. Check what other's say about this (obviously) but i
think that / is seperate from the MBR and so formatting / will do nothing for
how your machine is(n't) booting. Although when you have exausted the possible,
start probing the impossible.....
What you need is some hardware/harddrive guru to tell you what kind of
geometry-of-your-drive info you have to set up explicitly in
LILO/GRUB/whatever. Have you posted all the information possible on your hd
setup? Should you upgrade your motherboard bios? When you have exausted the
possible.....
dunno :-)
j
--- Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, that didn't work either. I tried it with both LILO and GRUB, with
> the same results as always.
>
> The next step, I guess, is to boot up with the install CD and do an
> install/update. Since I have most of the programs and data on partitions
> separate from "/", I shouldn't lose too much stuff when it makes me
> format "/" itself.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I'll give you something else to try.
> >
> > Boot your system with a win98 start-up disk and fdisk /MBR.
> > Remove the win98 disk and insert your Mandrake boot disk.
> > Reboot your system.
> >
> > Your system should now boot to Linux before Win rewrites
> > the boot record.
> > Use sbin lilo or grub sh to install the one of your choice,
> > either should now be able to fully install and be operational.
> >
> > Charles (-:
> >
> > Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
>
> --
>
> There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
>
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