Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
Hi, This suggestion will NOT work if your Win2K is installed on an NTFS partition, as there IS NO fdisk in Win2K (and win95 floppy will NOT recognize NTFS drive); You will have to boot into rescue mode (by using the install floppies OR the rescue floppy set you made), and use "fixmbr". HTH, David Charles On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Eric Paynter wrote: > On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: > > Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now > > can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school > > tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. > > The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for > now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze > recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run "fdisk > /mbr" from the DOS command line. Then run "fdisk" and select your windoze > partition as "active". Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should > come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake > install CD. > > Good luck! > > -Eric > > -- > arctic bears - email and name services > 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month > DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year > for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
First of all, what's with the backslash after "message" in his lilo.conf? If that's of no help, try removing the "table=" line in his. Also, is it just me or do you have duplicate Linux entries? Other than that, I can be of no help. Sorry. Best of luck -- Asheesh. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: > message\/boot/message What is this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:32:32 -0700 Eric Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: > > Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now > > can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school > > tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. > > The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for > now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze > recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run "fdisk > /mbr" from the DOS command line. Then run "fdisk" and select your windoze > partition as "active". Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should > come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake > install CD. > NO Do not do that. With the error you are receiving when trying to boot Win2k if fdisk/ MBR is run it will make the system unbootable. Rather, login to linux and as root run /sbin/lilo -u. This will unistall Lilo and restore the previous bootloader, Win2Ks. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: > Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now > can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school > tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run "fdisk /mbr" from the DOS command line. Then run "fdisk" and select your windoze partition as "active". Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake install CD. Good luck! -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message\/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" devfs=mount" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" devfs=mount failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=NT table=/dev/hda I then got him to try this lilo.conf (mine) boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=NT keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message-graphic menu-scheme-wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" hdc-ide-scsi quiet" vga=788 read-only ...some stuff in the middle other=/dev/hda1 label=NT table=/dev/hda When he runs lilo.. he gets: Fatal: Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x305 I tried to think of him going into linuxconf and possibly switch to GRUB as a temp. work around, but now he is getting an unending series of 40 40 40 40... when he tries to get into linuxconf. Ideas??? This is beyond my knowledge (especially since I'm remote from him..) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
