yeah you're right it looks like I screwed something up:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gavin8or# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          26      204819+  ee  EFI GPT
/dev/sda2              26        5248    41943040   af  Unknown
/dev/sda3   *        5248       13096    63045632   ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda4           13096       14594    12027312    b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes


but I think my lilo.conf is OK:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gavin8or# more /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda3
default=Ubuntu

map=/boot/map
delay=20

image=/vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img
        root=/dev/sda3
        label=Ubuntu
        read-only

I'm going to try and fix my partition map/MBR. What should I use, fdisk or parted? In linux or OSX?

gavin

II Peter 3:11





On 10/11/06, Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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

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