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LILO and Windows Startup prob

  • 05-11-2002 7:33pm
    #1
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭


    [Posted this to Unix aswell]

    I had a dualboot system on an IBM Thinkpad Laptop, Win98 & Mandrake with LILO's GUI after the BIOS Password at bootup. I needed more space on the Win system so I decided to delete the Linux partition using Partition Magic and formatted to Fat32. Then merged the two partitions.

    Now, I didnt notice til I turned it on today, that LILO's still trying to load, but must have been partially scrambled 'cos it looks a lil something like this:

    LI..070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070

    and just keeps replicating the '07' no matter how long I leave it.

    To make it worse, I can't use the Win bootdisk as there seems to be smth wrong there too. I choose to load windows with CD-ROM support, it brings me to a C:\ where I try to AUTOEXEC.BAT. It starts to load Windows, runs Grisoft Antivirus, gets to loading PWS and stops trying to load MTS and goes back to C:\ prompt.

    Don't really want to have to format whole system, anybody able to help?

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭Kev


    at the c:\ prompt, type fdisk /mbr

    that should remove lilo from the master boot record


  • #3
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Ah, why didnt I think of that?

    Cheers Kev :]


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