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I have a dual-boot, Win2K and Mandrake 9.0 machine. Everything has been working well until last night. I booted into Win2K and the it said "Loading NT" and hung.
I can boot into Linux, and my data partition is completely fine.
So my question is: is Lilo misconfigured? I have copied out the lilo.conf file below.
If it is not Lilo, does anyone else have any suggestions?
He's not using grub so how is that suppose to help him any ?
matthewD,
Its not a problem with lilo as it actually gets past the lilo stage to start the load for Windows 2000. Most likely there is some sort of corruption with your Windows at this point if its hanging. Do you have some sort of Windows Rescue disk of some sort ? Does it give you any time or option to try to boot into safe mode at all ?
Another possibility is that your Win2k partition was somehow changed to be a hidden partition. The version of LILO distributed with Mandrake 9.0 will not be able to boot a hidden partition.
Do you use any partition managing programs besides what is already in Linux, like Partition Magic? Be sure all your partitions are not hidden, and if that doesn't work, try setting up LILO again. If that doesn't fix it, then I'd say I'm out of answers....
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