Peppercorn Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Hi I am running Mandrake 10.02 and dual booting with XP. I hav'nt used XP for ages but the other day I needed to get in and when I chose it from my Lilo screen all I got was a blank screen with a flashing cursor. I have installed a new kernel, but that is all I can think of that may play around with Lilo. Can someone help me in any way of tackling this problem??!! Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Not to be an asshole, but your problem is XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Not to be an asshole, but your problem is XP <{POST_SNAPBACK}> man.....that helped a lot....really?...you think?...and all this time I thought linux was millions of dualbooters problem. thanks for setting us all straight Well, usually when this happens you are pretty much screwed, but, you won't know til..... [oh, btw, there are 100's of post about this on the board ;) ] You can boot with mandrakes cd1>press F1 at the splash screen>type rescue and press Enter and restore the windows bootloader. Doubt it'll help. The better option is to.... boot with the XP cd and do a command propt rescue and run fixboot and fixmbr ....other than that? recover your data from linux and reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Thanks a lot BVC!! Both for the exlemporary telling off of kilimanjaro and your advice! It's amazing isn't it.......... I use Linux and I STILL have to reinstall XP, You just can't seem to get away from this mans clutches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Thanks a lot BVC!! Both for the exlemporary telling off of kilimanjaro and your advice!It's amazing isn't it.......... I use Linux and I STILL have to reinstall XP, You just can't seem to get away from this mans clutches! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :lol: yup....guess what I get to do tomorrow? Same....reinstall XP Linux Rocks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Not to be an asshole, but your problem is XP <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you're going to be an asshole, then you're better off not saying anything. It wasn't obvious to him. I seem to remember a few of your posts were about basic issues that's been posted hundreds of times as well. Give the guy a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 This problem happens to me all the time, for some odd reason the windows option on the bootloaded somehow doesn't boot windows anymore and shows that pesky cursor (which is actually attempting to suck the lifeblood from your body as you watch it slowly and methodically flash before your eyes...) Booting from the Mandrake CD and doing as suggested before (F1, Restore, but instead of restoring the windows bootloader I restore the main bootloader (as my linux and windows drives are seperate, linux as the master (I don't want it to affect my windows bootloader at all))). However, since I have an NVidia graphics card, I get to then change the inittab back to 3 and re-install the nvidia drivers or my linux install will for some reason say no screens found! Gotta love the glitches in Linux...but it doesn't even compare to the multi-fasceted frustration of Windows!! Have a good one... -SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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