On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 13:07:10 -0500, Gavin Rogers wrote: > Hey guys, > > I think I might have run the wrong options for lilo, and now rEFIt has 4 > options: 1 OSX, 2 linux, and 1 windows. > > both the linux options and the windows option boot into linux, I can't seem > to get into XP anymore (I know it's there, I run programs off of /dev/sda4 > using wine all the time. > > If I hold down the (option) key before rEFIt loads, I get 2 options: OSX and > windows, but selecting windows only boots into linux. > > Did I accidentally overwrite my MBR with lilo? If so, how can I restore it
It looks so. Another thing is tha active partition in the DOS partition table. If the Linux partition is marked as active, The bootblock will boot Linux instead of Windows. > so that I can boot XP again? Again, it's not a critical issue because wine > is fine for running most of my windows stuff, but I would really like to > figure out what I did and how to get XP booting again (without reinstalling > windows). Posting your lilo.conf and the output of fdisk -l as root would help here. Regards, Tino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users