try a boot menu program called xoslfat, very neat appearance, freeware cant
remember where i found it but possibly Tucows
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Schur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO probs
> Hey, sorry for not replying quicker. I am running into similar type
> errors with my mbr, and i have had 0 luck with lilo, so i just use a boot
> disk for now. untill i figure something out, as for getting windows back,
> just use a windows book disk, restart your computer insert it before the
> beep, and just get to a dos prompt under your A:\ drive and type
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> this should remove lilo from your boot record and windows should load fine
> from now on, i just suggest you make a few copies of your boot disk until
> you figure out how to make things work right...
>
> Dave
>
> Paul Marriott wrote:
>
> > Hi there
> >
> > the story so far goes like this,
> >
> > Box2: One newish HP pavilion PC with windows gets a magazine cover CD
> > version of Corel
> > Linux installed.....(which on first and subsequent boots hangs whilst
> > booting).....
> > Windows could still be booted normally at that point, so then the
> > Corel directory installed in the Windows C: directory is deleted
> > .........and
> > next a CD installation of Mandrake 7.0 is performed. OK ,At this point
> > DiskDrake has done its work and hacked the windows partition to
> > shreds......oooooops!
> > never mind. OK methinks, but just for a while at least Im going to
> > need Windows so I'll restore from the HP restore CD. That done windows
> > doesnt
> > boot. By exploring through linux the DOS partition clearly has
> > the full and correct Windows98 installation.
> >
> > The problem is that on booting the LILO hangs right at the bit where
> > it starts..."LILO" etc....but it only gets as far as the "LI" and then
> > hangs.....
> > Linux Mdk boots up just fine with the boot diskette., so i tried
> > reconfiguring lilo and save to the MBR with klilo AND also Linuxconf to
> > no avail. I got various error messages like "syntax error near line 17
> > in file /etc/lilo.conf added windows* ERROR: lilo died" and the
> > prob continues...
> > So, what can I do to remedy this?......
> > a) what do I do to get use of windows back?
> > and how do I then configure lilo right.
> > Thanks for your patience people.
> > Paul
