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davidamarkley · September 11th, 2002, 06:16 PM

Hey guys!

I have a duron 950 box with 40gig HDD in it and am dual booting Mandrake Linux 8.2 and Win98SE. The problem is when I start it up, it goes through POST and shows the PCI device listing and everything, then instead of showing LILO, my boot loader, All it displays is "LI"

After displaying that it will not respond to anything but the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys.

I haven't changed anything system-wise and I have no clue what LI means. Maybe some linux techie out there can help me.

Thanks in advance, David

**EvilRick** · September 11th, 2002, 06:54 PM

LILO is hosed. Did you make a Mandrake boot disk?

If not, you'll need to reinstall LILO by doing another Mandrake install. ( i don't know of any other way)

If you did, boot with the floppy and repair LILO after Mandrake boots.

You can get to Windows by booting with a 9X boot disk and doing "fdisk/mbr". You won't be able to get to Mandrake, but it will still be there.

davidamarkley · September 11th, 2002, 07:17 PM

does anyone know where I can get a linux boot disk?

Bob The Great · September 12th, 2002, 02:52 AM

take a look here

Bob The Great · September 12th, 2002, 02:57 AM

For a bootable floppy I think this might be of some assistance. Good luck on your quest.

BTW I've not yet used Tom's RTBT, but I think it will work. Read the FAQ. Again good luck! Keep us updated!

Agent_Embryo · September 12th, 2002, 04:02 AM

This has happened to me many times when installing Linux. Try reinstalling LILO using another option as to where it will install(superblock etc). Good luck.

davidamarkley · September 17th, 2002, 10:57 PM

Thanks guys!!

It's working now!

David

**EvilRick** · September 17th, 2002, 10:58 PM

Kool! It's always good to hear feedback when something works.