----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>
>
>
