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Old 07-02-2001, 08:54 AM   #1
atc24amit
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Unhappy Unalbe to Make Dual Boot


Hi Friends


I have dual boot system (stand alone machine), My linux was courrepted and i reload the linux. When i restart machine again than it not ask me the question lilo boot it shows me the screen

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

and so on


In this situation i am unable to boot wy windows also, then i try to boot with linux boot disk than it shows me the screen

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10


for next 1.5 hours

After this i boot my machine with windows-98 floppy and reload the windows-98

Now i am unable make my machine as dual boot system because it give the first error..



what is the sol. of this problem


Amit Midha
 
Old 07-02-2001, 06:48 PM   #2
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Had the same prob when I had Linux installed on the 2nd IDE channel, and windows was on the 1st one.

Solution - Put the Linux HD as the slave to the windows HD, then re-install.

Have you installed Linux to a separate HD?
 
  


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