Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: Can't load Linux on boot | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:36:21 -0500 |
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>>Sounds to me like you just need to LILO again. You said you installed >>Windows after Linux, which means Windows installed its own bootstrap on the >>MBR most likely. Just boot into Linux and rerun /sbin/lilo (and make sure >>you have something in your /etc/lilo.conf that'll let you run Windows -- >>otherwise you'll have to reinstall Windows most likely). Reboot and all >>should be well. If that doesn't work, fdisk /dev/hda and make /dev/hda1 >>bootable (and only that bootable) and try installing LILO on /dev/hda1 >>instead of /dev/hda, although I can't think of any reason why this would be >>necessary. > >ah, but before I even installed windows, it told me there was no operating >system installed - I could only boot up with a LILO disk even then - and as >for the windows partition being bootable... it isn't! hda1 is the only active >partition, and that's my Linux partition! (I originally had LILO installed on >the Superblock of hda1, rather than the MBR, but when I kept getting no >operating system messages, I switched it) >
Reinstall LILO on the active partition and run FDISK /MBR from win95 to clean up your MBR. This should allow your system to boot.
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