Re: [newbie] After installing Mandrake Win dows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread p . b . burton


I should have also said: after editing /etc/lilo.conf be
sure to run (as root) '/sbin/lilo /etc/lilo.conf' (without
quotes).

Phil


On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> The "unsafe" line at the end should follow the
> "floppy" section.  Should be right under "label=floppy"
> 
> And add "table=/dev/hda" in the windows section.
> 
> Try this.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Arlindo Fragoso wrote:
> 
> > Hello! Yesterday I've installed Mandrake 7.0 and
> > everything goes OK. But... when I tried to restart the
> > computer, the LILO prompts appear and after 5 secs
> > windows don't boot! I've tried to use the boot disk and
> > the same occurs. I've tried to boot with a DOS disk but
> > after a while it stops. If I write Linux at the prompt
> > everything works fine! Why that? My LILO is like this:  
> > boot=/dev/hda timeout=50 prompt
> > message=/boot/message
> > default=windows
> > vga=normal
> > root=/dev/hda6
> > read-only
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > keytable=/boot/pt-latin1.klt
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=Linux
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=windows
> > unsafe
> >  My computer as 128 RAM, HD 10Gb (win 6.5G/ Linux 3.5G)
> > Intel 600 Mhz, I need some help, please TIA
> >  
> > AF
> > 
> > 
> 




Re: [newbie] After installing Mandrake Win dows don´t boot

2000-07-01 Thread p . b . burton


The "unsafe" line at the end should follow the
"floppy" section.  Should be right under "label=floppy"

And add "table=/dev/hda" in the windows section.

Try this.

Phil


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Arlindo Fragoso wrote:

> Hello! Yesterday I've installed Mandrake 7.0 and
> everything goes OK. But... when I tried to restart the
> computer, the LILO prompts appear and after 5 secs
> windows don't boot! I've tried to use the boot disk and
> the same occurs. I've tried to boot with a DOS disk but
> after a while it stops. If I write Linux at the prompt
> everything works fine! Why that? My LILO is like this:  
> boot=/dev/hda timeout=50 prompt
> message=/boot/message
> default=windows
> vga=normal
> root=/dev/hda6
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> keytable=/boot/pt-latin1.klt
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
> unsafe
>  My computer as 128 RAM, HD 10Gb (win 6.5G/ Linux 3.5G)
> Intel 600 Mhz, I need some help, please TIA
>  
> AF
> 
>