When setup LILO did yu select also DOS ??
If not resetup LILO with lilo.conf and run lilo.
Take a look at info or man lilo. Or at page 275 of your User Guide and
Reference Manual.
If it don't help you can utilise loadlin.
Eric MC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
>
>
> can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
> thanks.
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
>
> > hi everyone,
> >
> > i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
> > with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
> > machine with windows 2000 professional on a 20gig, and a master-slaved
> > 6gig i want to run mandrake on. i start the install by booting
> off the cd,
> > setup my linux partitions automatically and go through the rest of the
> > install ok. i install lilo to the mbr and configure X and it tells me to
> > restart. i remove the boot disk and cdrom, restart, and all i get are
> > "cascading" 1's and 0's...i power down, start up with the boot
> disk i made
> > and lilo gives me *no* option for my windows partition that sits on the
> > other hard drive. i get into linux/kde with the floppy boot disk and add
> > the win partition to lilo in drakconf and try rebooting without the
> > bootdisk and i get 1's and 0's again. if i start with the
> bootdisk i'm ok,
> > but i cannot choose to boot into windows 2000. at this point i got a
> > little freaked out and had to overwrite my mbr to get access to windows
> > again, and have been hesitant to go any further with mandrake since i've
> > got 10 gigs of critical data on my windows 2000 drive/partition that i
> > must be able to acesss at all times for work. my system specs are 300mhz
> > AMD, 128 ram, 3dfx voodoo 2000, and on-board crystal pnp sound. i should
> > also note that i have norton antivirus2000 installed on windows, and
> > i'm wondering if maybe that is keeping lilo from writing itself to the
> > mbr? i am a former suse user and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help
> > with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going
> > back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks!
> >
> > best regards,
> > lance
> >
> >
>
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