I'll give you something else to try.
Boot your system with a win98 start-up disk and fdisk /MBR.
Remove the win98 disk and insert your Mandrake boot disk.
Reboot your system.
Your system should now boot to Linux before Win rewrites
the boot record.
Use sbin lilo or grub sh to install the one of your choice,
either should now be able to fully install and be operational.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jay
> DeKing
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:20 PM
> To: Civileme
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] LILO no longer works
>
>
> I have had to boot Linux with a floppy ever since I was forced to
> reformat my Win98 drive (hda1).
>
> Before the unfortunate incident which precipitated the reformatting, I
> had been using grub - very happily. Now, I have gone through
> grub-install many times since then, which gives me a Stage1 Read Error
> every time. I have also tried lilo (both graphical and command-line
> methods) and klilo. Both of them give me screens full of 10
> 10 10 10 ...
> ad infinitum.
>
> Every time I look for an answer, I am always told the proper
> method for
> installing GRUB and/or LILO. While I am thankful for the
> advice, I have
> gone through both procedures, carefully, in letter-perfect
> fashion many,
> many times, with precisely the same results every time.
>
> My fstab, lilo.conf, and menu.lst have not changed since I had to
> reformat; they should not need to, since the drives are configured
> exactly the same way as they were when GRUB worked. The last time
> somebody asked me to post my menu.lst file so they could see
> if anything
> was wrong with it, I never heard another word about it. So,
> either there
> was nothing interesting about it or I was forgotten.
>
> Imagine my pleasure when I saw a new idea (Civileme's - see below)! I
> tried it, and ... guess what? A screen full of 10 10 10 10 ... ad
> infinitum. Sigh.
>
> So, here is my menu.lst file again:
>
> timeout 5
> color black/cyan yellow/cyan
> i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages
> keytable (hd1,0)/boot/us.klt
> altconfigfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.once
> default 4
>
> title linux
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-secure root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
> hdd=ide-floppy vga=788
>
> title linux-up
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
> hdd=ide-floppy
>
> title failsafe
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
> hdd=ide-floppy
> failsafe
>
> title hack
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hack root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
> hdd=ide-floppy vga=788
> initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-hack.img
>
> title windows
> root (hd0,0)
> map (0x81) (0x80)
> map (0x80) (0x81)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> And my lilo.conf:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> map = /boot/map
> timeout = 200
> prompt
> vga = normal
> read-only
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-secure
> label = linux
> append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
> root = /dev/hdb1
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux-up
> append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
> root = /dev/hdb1
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = failsafe
> append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafe"
> root = /dev/hdb1
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-hack
> label = hack
> append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
> root = /dev/hdb1
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = windows
> table=/dev/hda
>
>
> Oh great Linux masters, can you help ?
>
> Thanks
> Jay DeKing
>
>
>
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > If you do NOT have reiser, then the mbr is probably damaged
> with respect to
> > the new Mobo. To fix this use the 7.1 install CD, hit F1,
> type "rescue"
> > without the quotes, and ... when the system comes up
> >
> > # mount /dev/hdax /mnt ## where x is the number for your
> / partition
> > # chroot /mnt
> > # /sbin/lilo
> >
> > EVEN if you were using grub, which you obviously were not.
> >
> > You should then be bootable from the hard disk, take out
> the CD and type
> >
> > # reboot
> >
> > Civileme
>
> --
>
> There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
>
>
>
