Help eliminating Linux

[Fred K]

Hello!

Nine times in 4 years I was trying to migrate to Linux. Unfortunatly the
problems have always been more that the benefits. I have tried with almost
any possible distro, but anyway I am always glad to come back to Windows
after all where everything works as "expected". Sure it have it's problems
and annoyances, but by, nothing compared to the halve done cartoonish KDE or
Gnome.

Anyway to my proble, Last time I installed Slackware 10 and after installng
LILO in the MBR, it seems that the whole MBR became corrupted. I cannot boot
to Linux or Windows after that. I have used my rescue diskett, but when
trying to access to the HD fdisc (linux version) repports a corrupted
partition table and proposes to delete and recreate the partitions.
Partition magic says the same thing, so I am now in this situation, blaming
the day I was born because all my docs in the windows partition are unbacked
up. And all because LILO

Some help?

 

[old jon]

Hello!

Nine times in 4 years I was trying to migrate to Linux. Unfortunatly the
problems have always been more that the benefits. I have tried with almost
any possible distro, but anyway I am always glad to come back to Windows
after all where everything works as "expected". Sure it have it's problems
and annoyances, but by, nothing compared to the halve done cartoonish KDE
or Gnome.

Anyway to my proble, Last time I installed Slackware 10 and after
installng LILO in the MBR, it seems that the whole MBR became corrupted. I
cannot boot to Linux or Windows after that. I have used my rescue diskett,
but when trying to access to the HD fdisc (linux version) repports a
corrupted partition table and proposes to delete and recreate the
partitions. Partition magic says the same thing, so I am now in this
situation, blaming the day I was born because all my docs in the windows
partition are unbacked up. And all because LILO

Some help?

Insert a Windows boot diskette. I personally use a WinME one. Boot to DOS,
and a the A: prompt type fdisk /MBR (spc between k and /)
Then restart, you should be able to boot into windows.
bw..OJ

 

[Ivan V. Klattrup]

Some help?

I had the same problem last time i tried install ubuntu on my pc, but
exactly witch tools on http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ i used to first
fdisk/mbr and then setting the boot partition I can't remember.

If you got a XP cd-rom maybe this can help you
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx

 

[philo]

Hello!

Nine times in 4 years I was trying to migrate to Linux. Unfortunatly the
problems have always been more that the benefits. I have tried with almost
any possible distro, but anyway I am always glad to come back to Windows
after all where everything works as "expected". Sure it have it's problems
and annoyances, but by, nothing compared to the halve done cartoonish KDE

yep ...as they mentioned fdisk /mbr
from a win9x bootdisk

 

[Kansas Boiled Beef]

Anyway to my proble, Last time I installed Slackware 10 and after installng
LILO in the MBR, it seems that the whole MBR became corrupted. I cannot boot
to Linux or Windows after that.

From the a.c.f. archives:

You need to boot from the cd into the recovery console

The two commands you require are

fixmbr fixes mbr to point to active boot sector
fixboot fixes bootsector to point to ntldr

depending on your configuration you may or may not
use the default. Loads of info at Microsoft.

fdisk /mbr from a dos disk will not work with win2k or xp

(John Stubbings, 6th Nov 2002)

KBB

 

[mike ring]

Insert a Windows boot diskette. I personally use a WinME one. Boot to
DOS, and a the A: prompt type fdisk /MBR (spc between k and /)
Then restart, you should be able to boot into windows.
bw..OJ

Just curious - I use 98SE, but is the ME one in some way better
(like the defragger?) ;-)

mike

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Anyway to my proble, Last time I installed Slackware 10 and after installng

LILO in the MBR, it seems that the whole MBR became corrupted. I cannot boot
to Linux or Windows after that. I have used my rescue diskett, but when

Use Knoppix LiveCD to boot your linux, then run mount the linux
partition with "-o dev", chroot and re-write the LILO boot loader.

 

[Al Klein]

Just curious - I use 98SE, but is the ME one in some way better
(like the defragger?) ;-)

I use a 98 CD or an XP Pro CD, depending on what I want to do. (I'll
be building a DOS CD one of these days.)

Is Win ME better than ... anything? No. The first thing I do with
ME, if it's on a system I'm repairing, is replace it with the owner's
choice. Having to work with Windows is bad enough - working with ME
is just working with a particularly buggy version of a buggy operating
system.

 

[mike ring]

I use a 98 CD or an XP Pro CD, depending on what I want to do. (I'll
be building a DOS CD one of these days.)

Is Win ME better than ... anything? No.

Oh, thanks, Al; I was just reacting to when you wrote you use a ME boot
diskette; I have a little prob with the 98 diskette in that it only seems
to boot the 98CD, which is fine, but I wanted remove it and be left with a
working CDrom.

I use UBD to do this, but I thought the ME boot diskette might be better.

(The defrag certainly is)

mike