On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:44, alemao wrote: > Hello, > > Iīm new here in the newbieīs list. I have my winchester partitioned in 3 > (1 swap) and I used to have MDK9.1 and WIN98 installed, using lilo for > dualboot. > I decided to install winXP these days and something strange happened: > when I tried to restore my lilo, booting from the floppy, as I restarted the > boot was impossible. That means that no lilo was started, nor any windows. > So, I reestarted from the floppy and payed some more attention on the > programs being executed. Well, the connetion to internet (lan) was > impossible, and various other things (which I donīt know well what they are) > failed to be loaded. > Now, here are my questions on this thing: > 1) How could windows mess my MDK? Where is the intersection between > them?!?!? Ok, itīs in some place that lilo configures... but... what > happened? > 2) Why my internet connection is said to be already being used by something > else: like 127.00...x.x..x is being used, etc... in that initial screen. > 3) If I reinstaled them, in which order should I do it. > > Hope you have some clue for me! I searched the listīs archive but there was > nothing similar to it there. > > Thanks! > > Thiago
Did you try to restore lilo booting from CD? When the first screen come up, hit ESC and type "rescue". Select Install (or Restore) lilo and reboot. You will get your lilo back to boot Mandrake. HTH Adolfo
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