On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 10:49 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Can your BIOS let you boot from the CDROM? If so, at the MDK splash > screen hit F1 and then type rescue. It should load a clean kernel image > from the cdrom and present you with a menu. I don't remember exacly > where, but at some point it will run fscheck (or let you do it manually) > on your partitions which may solve your problem. > > I have no idea of what is the problem you are experiencing. Corrupted > boot partition, maybe? > I've just realised that the reply sent earlier via webmail will not come through. It was on these lines:
Thanks for a speedy reply, Raffaele. I don't know exactly how it got fixed, but fixed it is. I ran a disk bootup, as you suggested, but didn't know what to choose from the menu, so I chose 'mount your partitions'. It found the old 8.2 kernel, and told me that my partitions were already mounted, returning me to the menu. Since I didn't know what to do next, I chose Reboot. >From lilo I selected Mdk9.0 - the stanza used before I installed win4lin - in case the problem was in some way due to the win4lin stanza. It booted OK, so I shutdown and rebooted into the win4lin stanza, which is my normal choice. Everything is fine. I still would like to know just what could have caused this, if anyone has any ideas. The only thing I saw wrong last night was that Galeon was reluctant to print out a web page. Meanwhile, thanks again. you saved my sanity. The old windows box has its uses, but my life is here on this Mandrake box :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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