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jerrybaxter
07-16-2000, 04:22 PM
I've got Win 2000 and Linux on a dual boot ....I don't know how it happened , but at boot-up all I get is .. LI ...and a "blinking" cursor ..... not LILO but just LI .....my master boot record is "torked" ....what do I do ????? I've tried a boot floppy to FDISK but it starts to read the floppy and then ..... LI ....and yes I've set my BIOS to boot from A ..... fortunately I love messing with things like this so ...guide me ..... THX

furrycat
07-17-2000, 04:38 AM
http://discussions.linuxplanet.com/Forum3/HTML/000289.html

If you aren't on RedHat (good for you) then just boot up off whichever install CD you have in the way you usually do.

Ardith
07-17-2000, 02:27 PM
That's odd. Your boot disk should not be acting up like that. The chances of your boot disk getting messed up in the _exact_ same way are rather slim.