On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:32:32 -0700 Eric Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: > > Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now > > can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school > > tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. > > The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for > now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze > recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run "fdisk > /mbr" from the DOS command line. Then run "fdisk" and select your windoze > partition as "active". Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should > come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake > install CD. > NO Do not do that. With the error you are receiving when trying to boot Win2k if fdisk/ MBR is run it will make the system unbootable. Rather, login to linux and as root run /sbin/lilo -u. This will unistall Lilo and restore the previous bootloader, Win2Ks. Charles (-:
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