californiajeff

I went ahead and reinstalled 8.2 and everything is back to where I started. I am in the process of downloading 9.0. If I run into any trouble with that I will probably just start a new thread.

This was an upgrade. I tried chroot /mnt but it does not appear to do anything. Maybe the linux system that is loaded off the floppy doesn't have as many commands or it just does not work?

I tried the chroot /mnt thingie but it did not appear to do anything. I did get down to the command line and did an ls under /mnt. I could see all my filesystems except for the linux ones. I coudl see the windows partitions. I suspect during the mandrake 9.1 upgrade my linux partition got hosed. If you got anymore ideas let me know. Otherwise, I may be reinstalling Mandrake 8.2 tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

Update: I found out there was a recovery mode I could use with the floppy and disc 1 of Mandrake 9.1. I attempted to redo boot loader but it gave an error stating it was unable to find dev/hda. That does not sound good. Luckily, in the recovery mode, there was an option to restore the windows boot loader and that worked. I am able to get into Windows XP now but I need to get Linux back.

I had Mandrake 8.2 on my desktop which dual-booted flawlessly with my Windows XP. Then I upgraded to Mandrake 9.1. It appears to have gotten through the whole install and I got to the end where I clicked the button to reboot. Now the system won't boot back up to the OS Selection. I suspect this an issue with LILO cause I will get past the BIOS screen and then I will just see "LI" the first two letters of LILO. Luckily, I have my laptop or I would be SOL. Please help download boot disk and what I should do to try and repair it. Thanks a million in advance.