lilo trouble

[James McDonald]

Wade Barocsi wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I managed to mess up lilo.conf.
> 
> My laptop is a HP ze4125 dual boot (until today) with windows XPpro and slack 
> 8.1.  I wanted to upgrade to slack 9.0 with Swaret.
> Well, I screwed that up, and decided to reinstall linux.  The install went 
> fine except for lilo, which won't boot windows.
> I get a win2000 splash screen, then a can't find message, then a BSOD. lock up
> 
> Partition wise: hda is broken into 
> hda1- "IBM hibernation drive" 
> hda2 Win XP Pro
> hda3 Linux
> hda4 swap

Umm I would try and ... run the w2k setup disk and/or the rescue console 
and do a repair, and replace the mbr with a windows 2000 mbr as I think 
that your lilo.conf has changed the boot recored to something w2k can't 
cope with. This should get your w2k system bootable...

then I would use the w2k boot loader to boot the linux install .....

Or even better just install linux and then run w2k in vmware...





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