Sandy Ensley wrote:
Harold....do you have the boot floppy you were supposed to create when
you first installed Win98? If so, place it in your A: drive and reset
or ctl-alt-del or power-up your computer. Then at the dos prompt type:
fdisk /mbr
Now do a ctl-alt-del and if all is as I suspect it is, Win98 should boot
up. If Windows doesn't boot at this point you probably will have to
re-install Windows.
Alan
>
> Hello list.
>
> I'm having a heck of a time with the "macmillian-mandrake complete linux
> OS 6.5"
> I followed the instructions to a tee. I even had linux running for a
> short while...
> however, I could not figure how to get rid of partition magic. Every
> time I started the computer, it would boot partition magic, and follow
> some endless cycle or rebooting <-> partition magic. Even when I
> initially installed linux, I had to use F5 to break out of this cycle.
>
> In the short run, I figured that I must of messed something up. So I
> uninstalled the linux partition on safe mode in win98 (only way past
> "partition magic"). I then attempted to reinstall another partition for
> linux. However, after this new partition was created, I went into win98
> "safe mode" to deinstall partition magic, without deleting the linux
> partition.
>
> I'm now totally, utterly devastated. Neither OS works, and I am stuck
> in some endless cycle, where a question asks if I want exit dos mode
> into windows mode-> reboot-> the question again.
>
> ahhhhhhhhh... this is enough to make a preacher cuss. I really need
> win98 to operate again
>
> Please help!
> Harold Ensley
