Re: Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-09 Thread John Foster
Brian Boonstra wrote: > > Hi > > I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT > partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on > trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke completely, giving > me the letters LI (in the same posit

Re: Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Low!! On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Hi > > I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT > partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on > trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke complete

Re: Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread jchristensen
It sounds like LILO is installed in the boot sector of the partition that you have linux installed to and not the MBR of the disk. Using an alternative boot loader like PQ Boot or System Commander still requires LILO to be installed in the boot sector of the linux root partition while PQ Boot or SC

Help! Hang on boot, with letters LI

1999-09-08 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke completely, giving me the letters LI (in the same position as I previously saw a whole