Cant boot into windows

[gong]

Hi (a totally newbie)

I have win98 and Linux. As usual today windoz crash and I had to make a hard reset
since then lilo is stuck at

LI prompt

cant go beyond this I have to boot throught floppy then also I can only go into linux. Tried to run /sbin/lilo didnt work.

History:

I made the following changes one day before
from partition magic in windoz
1. configuration before altering
C:
swap
Ext2
D:

2. after altering the partitions
c:
D:
Ext2
swap
in the process I had to delete the extended partion D: and swap partition and recreate them

Now Linux doesnt know about this new partions
my swap too.

Surprising: Immediately after making changes I booted into linux and everything was fine and then went back to windoz still everything was working fine. Until the craaaash

How the crash occured: I was trying to listen to a cd when real player got stuck my attempts to Kill the process and remove the cd were useless. Only left out choice was hard reset.

ANY CLUES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME!!!

[bdg1983]

Maybe try using a Win bootdisk (with fdisk) and at the command prompt, do 'fdisk /mbr'. That should allow you to boot Windows.

Next use you Linux bootdisk and verify all is fine in /etc/lilo.conf to boot both Linux and Windows, make changes if necessary and then run /sbin/lilo to write lilo.

If you are not sure about the contents of /etc/lilo.conf, then post the contents here and I'm sure someone will be able to help.

[jaygee432]

An alternative would be to get away from lilo and use another bootloader. I like loadlin because it's easy once you get it set up, no more worries about mbr if you upgrade or recompile the kernel. There are some NHFs here, and I found the HOWTO easy enough.

[TheBouleOfFools]

Not being able to boot into Windows is a problem? :confused: