don't be panic
just goto dos prompt of win 98 and run fdisk
select option 2 set active and select your non dos partiton on which you
have linux and lilo.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rajasankar K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Re: Problem with Lilo boot
> Rohit wrote:
>
> > Rajasankar K wrote:
> > > Is this statement right : If I have lilo in boot sector of hda2 and
I have
> > > made hda1 (say win98 is there in hda1)
> > > as active partition, then my lilo prompt won't be displayed at boot
time and I
> > > will get win98 directly.
> >
> > This should happen. [Or may be you will get only LI prompt and the
> > system hang after that]
> >
>
It is due to imporper information about your os in mbr.
If you have win 98 then run fdisk /mbr and it will erase lilo from mbr.
after this load linux from any pcq cd and with file autoboot.bat
restore lilo with lilo -v
Kunal
> I got this LI and hang some time back.
> May I know the reason for this.
>
> Thanks,
> Raja.
>
>
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