Harry
Can you access Windows with a boot disk? If so you will need to
re-install to repair your MBR unless one of your utilitiy programs can do it
otherwise I am afraid that you will need to do a New Install of Windows.
I don't know why you got the syntac error with Lilo but when you
installed Grub it did not properly repalce your old Lilo or it's boot
contents. When Lilo tried to operate at your re-boot it could not and though
fdisk/MBR removed it , it also removed your Win MBR. So that you were left
only with Grub, and 7.1 as the only bootable OS.
I know you said that fdisk would not do anything now but have you tried
fdisk/MBR again.
Just as a matter of info you can remove Lilo from within Linux, you Can
Not do so with Grub. The only way to remove Grub is fdisk/MBR.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Flaxman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade & MBR of HDA
> Well, here's another problem I ran into upgrading to 7.1. I tried
> specifying LILO when DrakConf asked me which bootloader to use. The
> lilo configuration returned a syntax error. I went ahead and chose
> GRUB. when I booted to my first hard drive....LILO stopped after the I,
> so I used my handy dandy dos boot disk to do a fdisk /mbr. C: drive
> returned an error, and I couldn't get a directory listing on it. Upon
> rebooting...I got GRUB, and tried to choose windows to boot from, and I
> get a loop...no winslows boot. GRUB booted me into linux, and upon
> examining HDA1 there, all of the winslows data files are accessible. I
> just can't get fdisk to do anything to the drive now, and can't boot
> into winslows. There are a couple of utilities there that I use from
> time to time.
>
> Has anyone run into a similar situation?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Harry
>
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