Edison Gica wrote:
>
> I need help guys!
>
> I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing that
> came up in setup filesystems was:
>
> "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try to
> go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers"
>
> Note that I installed the new 2nd HD neither partitioned nor formatted by
> either Windows or Linux.
>
> I clicked 'Cancel' and it went immediately to the setting up of partitions
> so I selected 'hdb'and 'auto allocate'.
>
> I also selected to create a boot disk.
>
> And...Charles LM installed LILO on my Windows disk! There was no option
> after the create boot disk it jumped directly to Configure X! Boy..I did not
> want that to happen!
>
> After installing, it rebooted the computer and LILO came up :( so I entered
> to go to Linux. The Console mode login session came up but the screen would
> go on and off, what's wrong?
>
> I also tried to boot using the created 'boot disk' and an error came,
> error 0X10.
>
> Would sincerely appreciate any help guys.
>
> Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to
> just boot from the 'boot disk'?
>
> edison
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As to your last question:
if you havs a dos ( or windows) boot disk then you can remove LILO by
typing :
fdisk /mbr at the 'A:\' prompt.
Eunice Thompson
