Red Had Linux screwed XP
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So, I needed to install RHL 7.1 for academic reasons. I deleted one of my extra NTFS partitions and installed RHL into it. The thing is, I installed LILO to the MBR. RHL setup didn't detect my XP boot partition. Manually adding it to lilo.conf results in an error: NTLDR not found. What have I done? How do I fix it? Thanks.
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So, I needed to install RHL 7.1 for academic reasons. I deleted one of my extra NTFS partitions and installed RHL into it. The thing is, I installed LILO to the MBR. RHL setup didn't detect my XP boot partition. Manually adding it to lilo.conf results in an error: NTLDR not found. What have I done? How do I fix it? Thanks.
well lets see.. sounds like LILO screwed the MBR X| :confused: . put in the XP cd and go to the recovery console... do: fixmbr and fixboot [drive] (in anything lower than 2K than you would use: fdisk /mbr) --------------------------- after this, if it still does not work, try copying NTLDR from another xp computer or somewhere... to the [drive]:\ (root dir.) good luck
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well lets see.. sounds like LILO screwed the MBR X| :confused: . put in the XP cd and go to the recovery console... do: fixmbr and fixboot [drive] (in anything lower than 2K than you would use: fdisk /mbr) --------------------------- after this, if it still does not work, try copying NTLDR from another xp computer or somewhere... to the [drive]:\ (root dir.) good luck
Anonymous wrote: fixmbr and fixboot [drive] (in anything lower than 2K than you would use: fdisk /mbr) --------------------------- Before you do that, login to Linux and configure your LILO to be placed at the beginning of your Linux partition (not MBR). Than copy LILO to a floppy disk (with dd command), restore your Win XP, copy the file from the floppy to C:\, and add another line to boot.ini. This way, you will be able to boot to either XP or Linux. For more detailed instructions, take a look at this article . I vote pro drink :beer:
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So, I needed to install RHL 7.1 for academic reasons. I deleted one of my extra NTFS partitions and installed RHL into it. The thing is, I installed LILO to the MBR. RHL setup didn't detect my XP boot partition. Manually adding it to lilo.conf results in an error: NTLDR not found. What have I done? How do I fix it? Thanks.
Lol. XP does the same thing to Linux then it sees it!