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Name: snowy
Date: August 10, 2002 at 02:14:31 Pacific
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i have two IDE hard disk , i install linux on one disk and win2k on the other,i use lilo to select them but recently ,my win2k crashed and i want to reinstall it,i put the win2k cd into the cdrom and boot the system from it ,after the setup programm have copyed the necessary file onto my computer ,it requires me to reset my computer and do it as it says ,but after the computer'selftest,i can only see an "L" on the screen,i don't know what to do,i tried several times to reinstall it ,but every time i get the same message ,who can help me?



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Name: jacko
Date: August 10, 2002 at 08:48:28 Pacific
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If you have a win98 boot disk, at A: prompt type fdisk /mbr (not sure if syntax is right)
and that will remove lilo and win2k will take over. I'm not sure if you can just reinstall lilo (Not a linux guy) But I have run a couple linux/win2k dual boots and that will do the trick.


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