On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 13:33, Colin Hutcheson wrote: > After up grading the memory to 156 MBytes and adding an Iomega drive > in February 2002 Linux stopped working. (Iomega was not supported under > version 8.0) Well, it's rather strange it made the system stop working just like that. > I then did something which I learned not do later. I deleted the > partition thinking that would eliminate Linux. It did but not the dual > boot menu which continued to be present. I have used the machine like > this over the past nine months by just selecting Windows 98 from the > menu. What happened is that LILO, the LInux LOader was installed on the Master Boot Record (MBR). To remove LILO, simply type "fdisk /mbr" from a DOS shell. > I recently tried upgrading to Mandrake 9 but found nothing happened > when I tried installing it using a 3 CD set from the CD drive. What do you mean? It did not boot the CDs? It installed itself, but you cannot boot it? > I used the Linux for Windows version. It just jammed on start up and > all I get now is the first two letters of Linux and then the system > hangs. Linux for Windows? What's that? About the two "LI" letters, it sounds more like the first letters of "LILO" rather than "LINUX" (although LILO comes from LInux LOader ;). It looks like a LILO problem, and you might consider re-installing it, simply by typing "lilo" from a root shell in Linux. Nicolas -- OpenPGP public key: http://nicolas.marchildon.net/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint: 5E84 1089 0036 BB63 6997 232C 8FFB 777D 39D4 B2D4 Jabber ID: [email protected] http://www.jabber.org What have you done for freedom today? http://www.gnu.org
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