OK, Im not incredibly new to linux
but this is my first REAL problem in it
I just installed Mandrake 10 and now Windows XP
WON"T BOOT
It doesn't even exit out of lilo
I tried grub but evrey time I select Windows XP my comp reboots!!!
If u want to know what happens when i boot lilo
if its gaphical then it looks kinda like this
_
cept flashing
and it stays there
when its text based u see

boot: Windows_XP
loading Windows XP
_

and the _ is flashing

I have Athlon Xp 2000+
120gb harddrive
256mb
radeon 9700pro
a gigabyte mother board and some other crap


My brother has a simmaler problem except my mandrake boots and his only works in mandrake's console

we had mandrake 9 and xandros working welll before
please help

(by the way my windows partition is still intact if u thought that was the prob)

reconstruct the MBR from WinXP or a DOS boot disk with FDisk.

Then boot the mandrake CD, in rescue or maintenance mode to get a shell.

mount your root and boot partitions, chroot /mnt/yourrootpartition.
and reconstruct the MBR with lilo or grub, adding the XP OS correctly.

If you fell that the grub or lilo.conf files are at a afault then fix those.

ok 1st how do i reconsrtuct my mbr using fdisk?

2nd how do i reconstrct lilo from console?

Ive never needed to do either of these
please help


i tried modifying lilo.conf

no help

Print the output part of your /etc/lilo.conf which concerns XP

I believe its currently at default wich resembles

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

something like that

I tried re-installing lilo with the mandrake rescue disk
but when i do that it says stuff like fatal error
when i try to restore windows boootlader it still sticks with the flashing _
I re-installed mandrake, same thing
I deleted my bootloader but i couln't restore it to the normal windows one
so i had to re-re-install mandrake to get lilo back still nothing
I'm serious i need help