All you need to do is boot off a Mandrake Rescue disk (I think it's
actually a 2-disk set for 7.0) and re-run lilo.
The reason re-installing doesn't fix things is because a) Windows NT
doesn't overwrite your master boot record when you install it (a nice
thing on dual-boot machines) and b) you installed Mandrake without
installing LILO, so again, your MBR wasn't touched.
All you needed to do in the first place was boot from a rescue disk and
re-run lilo. Methinks too many people decide to re-install too quickly
nowadays.
-Matt Stegman
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, root wrote:
> I had Win NT on my primary hard drive and Mandrake 7.0 on my secondary hard
> drive. My machine crashed while using Win NT, something happened to my IDE
> cable. I was using Lilo to boot up and now I cannot boot into Win NT. All I get
> is an LI and the system doesn't do anything. I hae reinstalled Win NT and
> Mandrake 7.0 without using Lilo and it still gives me the LI. Can anyone tell
> me how to fix this ? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
> babalas
