Lilo "L 99 99 99 99 99"
I know I am a n00b and this is my first post but I am really desperate.
Partitions: C:/hda1 = Windows System Files D:/hda2 = Windows Data hda6 = empty space, recently formatted Linux (I don't know what happened to hda 3-5) I recently unintstalled Alcohol 120% off of my data Windows Partition. It prompted me to reboot, which I did. When I rebooted I got the error message L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99... I searched the internet to find this was related to the LILO boot manager. I couldn't figure out how to delete LILO as I foolishly reformatted my MandrakeLinux partition (I messed up the kernel) before deleting it. I didn't install LILO to the MBR, rather whatever the default is for Mandrake. I have tried to restore the MBR with no luck. Basically, I need to uninstall LILO; PLEASE HELP!!! |
Did you try
fdisk /mbr |
If you are using XP, boot up with the XP disk, enter the repair console and use the 'fixmbr' command.
Windows98 and WindowsME use the 'fdisk /mbr' command. If you have Windows98, do you have a windows rescue floppy to boot up with? This can be prepaired at a different Windows98 computer if you don't. The fdisk command is on the disk. |
reinstall lilo, always works for me. Find the utility that does that for your linux distro.
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As for the first two posts I did already try that.
For the third one I didn't want to reinstall Linux (I forgot to mention that; sorry). Thanks anyway you guys but I guess what happened was when I deleted the partition with PartitionMagic it didn't really clear the data so I formatted the raw space with my XP CD and it deleted LILO. Thanks anyways, sigloiv |
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