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Old 02-20-2006, 03:17 PM   #1
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Installed LindowsOS and Now Won't Boot Into It?


I have a Windows 98SE and I just tried installing LindowsOS onto it because it had a virus. I set it so it would erase the entire hard drive and install LindowsOS.
I got to the end of the installation and it said to eject the disk and reboot.

After I did that while it was rebooting up it just has a black screen with a underscore flashing at the top leff-hand corner.I left it like that for awile because the manual said to wait until a screen came up to ask you what to boot to. Nothing has come up for the last 10 minutes.

I read about booting it with Lilo or Grub, but I do not know anything about those. Are they files you can put on a cd or something?


I am a begginer with Linux (LindowsOS).

Any help would would be great! Thanks:
 
Old 02-21-2006, 03:55 PM   #2
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Sorry, I don't know what the problem is, but LILO and Grub are bootloaders, which load the Linux kernel into memory from the hard drive and execute it.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 06:35 PM   #3
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Ok. Thanks anyway
 
  


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