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From: "Jim Chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:03 AM
Subject: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT
> OK. I havea 20gB drive. I installed in this order:
> win98se
> Win2K Pro
> MDK7.1
>
> After Win@K evertyhing was OK. I could still boot to 98 and 2k with the NT
> loader. I read a message a while ago with someone else running these same
3
> OS's without Boot Magic.
>
> I'm in trouble.
>
> First of all, I thought 7.1 was supposed to use Grub, but when I boot I
have
> Lilo not Grub.
> Also, at the boot: prompt when I hit Tab it shows:
> linux rescue
>
> WHERE IS WINDOWS????
>
> I installed 7.1 by booting from CD and then choosing Advanced, Developer.
>
> What did I do wrong?
My guess would be that when the bootloader was installed you changed the
default location which should have been hda1 therefore Lilo was installed
instead of Grub or that for whatever reason Grub was not installed from the
CD.
I have more bad news. You will most likly have to fomatt your drive and
re-install all 3 OSes.
Were you using only Win98 or even Win98 and NT you could use fdisk/MBR to
remove Lilo and restore your Win bootloader but because you have Win2000
this will not work.
If you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk you can possibly use it to
boot to your Win2000 installation CD and using the repair option restore
the Win bootloader. I say possibly because it has been my experiance that
the restore operation is either unable to find the Win2000 partition or if
it does find it, it reports that the partiion table is corrupt and it can
not repair.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings.
Charles
