Hey, sorry for not replying quicker. I am running into similar type
errors with my mbr, and i have had 0 luck with lilo, so i just use a boot
disk for now. untill i figure something out, as for getting windows back,
just use a windows book disk, restart your computer insert it before the
beep, and just get to a dos prompt under your A:\ drive and type
fdisk /mbr
this should remove lilo from your boot record and windows should load fine
from now on, i just suggest you make a few copies of your boot disk until
you figure out how to make things work right...
Dave
Paul Marriott wrote:
> Hi there
>
> the story so far goes like this,
>
> Box2: One newish HP pavilion PC with windows gets a magazine cover CD
> version of Corel
> Linux installed.....(which on first and subsequent boots hangs whilst
> booting).....
> Windows could still be booted normally at that point, so then the
> Corel directory installed in the Windows C: directory is deleted
> .........and
> next a CD installation of Mandrake 7.0 is performed. OK ,At this point
> DiskDrake has done its work and hacked the windows partition to
> shreds......oooooops!
> never mind. OK methinks, but just for a while at least Im going to
> need Windows so I'll restore from the HP restore CD. That done windows
> doesnt
> boot. By exploring through linux the DOS partition clearly has
> the full and correct Windows98 installation.
>
> The problem is that on booting the LILO hangs right at the bit where
> it starts..."LILO" etc....but it only gets as far as the "LI" and then
> hangs.....
> Linux Mdk boots up just fine with the boot diskette., so i tried
> reconfiguring lilo and save to the MBR with klilo AND also Linuxconf to
> no avail. I got various error messages like "syntax error near line 17
> in file /etc/lilo.conf added windows* ERROR: lilo died" and the
> prob continues...
> So, what can I do to remedy this?......
> a) what do I do to get use of windows back?
> and how do I then configure lilo right.
> Thanks for your patience people.
> Paul
