Hi Gordon,
Thanks for your advice.
One thought before proceeding, how to start/boot the PC after deleting
win.com and re-naming Win98 to Win.old. I have carried out following tests;
1) Tried to boot with all available MSWindows boot floppy in my possession,
from CDRom with MSWindows installer, FIPS diskette, DOS 6.2 installing
diskette, Disk Manager from Seagate. All failed. MSWindow partition/hard
disk could not be detected. However BIOS could detect the hard disk
2) Removed the hard disk in question to another PC which was in perfect
working condition and tried to boot with the abovementioned disks and from
CDRom. All failed. MSWindow partition/hard disk could not be detected.
However BIOS could detect the hard disk
The strange thing is MSWindow partition and Linux partition still there.
Linux can be started working correctly, MSWindows partition can be mounted,
files in MSWindows partition can be deleted, copied, moved, etc. The only
problem is MSWindows can't start (after starting LILO --> "DOS" (in
lilo.conf label=DOS) the screen with " - " flashing and the PC hangs).
During starting Linux (R.H. 6.2) I saw a warning indicating "hda - read_intr
: error ..... etc". Please refers to the attached dmesg file.
I don't mind to remove everything if the hard disk can't be rescued. But I
am not allowed to fdisk.
Could you shed me some light. Thanks in advance.
B.R.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Messmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent LILO failure: former - to recover damaged partition
> Stephen Liu wrote:
> > In my hard disk MSWindows98 and R.H.6.2 are co-existing, both working
> > correctly. In an incident after a force-reset by pushing the said
button
> > (because Ctrl + Alt + Del did not work). LILO failed to boot
MSWindows98.
> > After started LILO --> "DOS" (in lilo.conf label=DOS) the PC stopped
with
> > " - " flashing.
>
> >From your description, this is not a problem with LILO or your
> partitions. This is a MS Windows problem. I hope you haven't destroyed
> your patitions before figuring this out
>
> Boot from a MS floppy, or the Windows installation CD rom and attempt to
> reinstall MS Windows. If the system still does not boot, then boot
> linux, mount your DOS partition, and delete the file WINDOWS/WIN.COM.
> Rename the WINDOWS directory to WIN.OLD. Attempt to reinstall Windows
> again, in c:\windows (it might try to install in c:\win.old).
>
> Having run the Windows installer, you will have to boot Red Hat Linux
> from a floppy, or it's installation CDROM, and run lilo again.
>
> MSG
dmesg.dat
