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Topic: mkliloboot default install location, OS killer

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Gilbert Ashley Offline

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Posted: Dec. 08 2003,23:04

John, I see another posting from someone who has lost their bootsector due to the default install of lilo. I think mkliloboot script should be changed to install to a floppy by default or at least give people a choice. People who are new to linux are not going to intuitively realize that this script is going to wipe out their ability to boot their regular OS, and some may not have any idea how to restore their MBR,or any way to do it. Some folks might be pretty mad about it.

ackkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,17:41

yes...I found that ou on my laptop

... when I try to boot xp it says that system32/hal.dll is missing or corrupted,

Can I repair this withoug losing all my files on my windows partition? If not I guess I'll have to get my wireless LAN working so I can transfer everything really important over to this computer and then reinstall it after I fix my disk. Well I'm gonna go try using my partition magic boot floppy to see if I can do anything with that, anyways,any help would be much appreciated

MBR repair
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Posted: Dec. 19 2003,18:02

Grab a Win 98 bootdisk, boot with it & run "fdisk /mbr" w/out the quotes.
That should restore the MBR & Windoze should boot normaly.

www.bootdisk.com