Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:45 am, alemao wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... Fdisk : Format Disk ( a powerful and dangerous tool. Makes it possible to erase and create partitions. If used

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command and it removes lilo from your MBR, master boot register , which is a small secret

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 05:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command and it removes

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:44, alemao wrote: Hello, I´m new here in the newbie´s list. I have my winchester partitioned in 3 (1 swap) and I used to have MDK9.1 and WIN98 installed, using lilo for dualboot. I decided to install winXP these days and something strange happened: when I

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command and it

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-11 Thread John Richard Smith
et wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command and it

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread Sharrea
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:43, alemao wrote: What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Hope That Helps HTH ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: Hi Adolfo, as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the systems could boot. What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Thanks Thiago Here's what worked for me

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:45 am, alemao wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao that was instructions for a win9x system Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread song
That's a good thing to know. Good work! On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: Hi Adolfo, as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the systems could

[newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-09 Thread alemao
Hello, I´m new here in the newbie´s list. I have my winchester partitioned in 3 (1 swap) and I used to have MDK9.1 and WIN98 installed, using lilo for dualboot. I decided to install winXP these days and something strange happened: when I tried to restore my lilo, booting from the floppy,

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-09 Thread racerpup2
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:44, alemao wrote: Hello, I´m new here in the newbie´s list. I have my winchester partitioned in 3 (1 swap) and I used to have MDK9.1 and WIN98 installed, using lilo for dualboot. I decided to install winXP these days and something strange happened: when I

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:44, alemao wrote: Hello, I´m new here in the newbie´s list. I have my winchester partitioned in 3 (1 swap) and I used to have MDK9.1 and WIN98 installed, using lilo for dualboot. I decided to install winXP these days and something strange happened: when I

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-09 Thread alemao
Hi Adolfo, as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the systems could boot. What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Thanks Thiago Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com