I'm no expert, but here is where I would start: 1) have you run fsck ? (File Systems ChecK) If not, then do so, but besure that you read and understand the man first. 2) after passing the fsck, try writing LILO again. Check the options. Make a change, save, change it back, save again. N.B.: By save here, I mean commit the changes. If you are using DrakConf, then answer that you DO want to apply the changes. Watch carefully for errors. I have found errors detected in writing the lilo script. Then I went in by hand and changed /etc/lilo.conf with vi, saved the result (keeping a copy in lilo.conf.orig), and went back to DrakConf to verify that the changes were the correct ones (detecting that the error was "LBA32" took awhile). 3) if this doesn't work, create a new floppy startup disk. This is mainly to verify that it isn't your hard disk that's causing the problem. 4) I'm now sort of scraping the bottom of what I know, so at this point I would try doing an Update from the original installation CDs. Hope some of that helps. Michael Wiesemann wrote: > I am using LILO for a dual boot machine, LINUX/Win98. I went and > changed the default booting OS from Linux to windows. Now when I rebooted > and selected windows at the LILO prompt it loops back to the LILO prompt > again. So when I boot linux I get a Mounting error for my windows HD as > follows: > Executing /bin/mount -t vfat -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,conv=binary /dev/hda1 > /mnt/win > *mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many > *mounted file systems > *return 32 > > I have ruled out that it's not a bad option or fs type. My questions are: > 1. If it's a bad superblock then how would I go about fixing that in linux > with out formating? > 2. If there are too many file systems mounted, how do I unmount them? > > This may seem like an easy question for the expert forum but from the > scope of questions in the newbie forum, I believe I would be looking in > the wrong place. > > I would greatly appriciate anything!!! > Sorry Man without Windows(Not such a bad thing), > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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