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From: David Irvine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 May 2001 18:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [scottish] bit stuck...
>You can boot into windows by using a boot disk, im
>assuming whats happened is that when mandrake
>uninstalled it deleted all the files it needs, and for
>some reason upset grub, or failed to remove it. and
>now your left with an incomplete bootloader.
>If you have the win98 boot disk then you should be
>able to stick that in the drive boot from floppy and
>load windows. If you can't load windows, check that
>your c: is your c: and nothing bad has happened to it,
>if windows complains about versions and gets huffy,
>thats normal you need to sys c: first, and if that
>fails you can run through the win98 installation
>without changing any files, after it asks you to
>reboot it will fix things, (In a round about kind of
>way)
Don't boot windows from a floppy, boot into dos from a floppy, if you run
the "win" command you will be there for about 6 months and then you'll get
an error ;-)
There are 2 ways to remove grub/lilo :-
1) A full reinstall of WinBlows 98
2) fdisk /mbr
3) (ok so I can't count) by restoring a back up of the MBR under linux, if
you have one - I think fips and fdisk under linux can do this, but you
have to have made a backup first - which you couldn't do, cause the backup
would have to be made under linux and before you installed linux (ok
lilo/grub)
There ends a circular argument - My heed is loupen now.
Chrs,
IWD
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