Re: win98 doesn't boot after Gnome install!!!

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Boot from a DOS floppy and run "fdisk /mbr"
If dos floppies won't boot, then you have some problem
other than just your mbr.  :)

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:23:48 Tom Barraza wrote:
> Sorry, I mispoke in my last email.  I AM able to boot using the
> Redhat boot floppy, so it is able to get to /dev/hda10 O.K.,
> it's just Win98(DOS) boot floppies that hang forever (seems
> they can't access the first partition, e.g. /dev/hda1).
> Any pointers would be appreciated to try to restore the MBR
> without trashing any data contained within /dev/hda1 ...
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> Tom Barraza wrote:
> > 
> > I also can't even boot with a floppy (DOS,Win98,Redhat,etc.)
> > now that the MBR of the hard drive is thrashed! SOS!!
> > 
> > Tom Barraza wrote:
> > >
> > > Please help!!!
> > >
> > > After installing Gnome 1.0, my machine no longer boots
> > > into Windoze 98! I have a triple boot machine, that
> > > I installed in the following order: Win98, NT 4.0, Redhat 5.2.
> > > I use NT's boot loader to determine which OS to boot (from
> > > the mini-howto), which worked just fine until after I
> > > installed GNOME.  Previously, I installed an earlier release
> > > of GNOME, and was not able to boot into RedHat Linux.  The
> > > screen just hung with the following message at the top
> > > of the screen: LIL-
> > > I fixed this problem by booting from floppy into linux,
> > > and redoing the bootsect.lnx file (from the mini-howto).
> > > When I did this and transferred this file back to the
> > > C: drive, everything worked fine again.
> > >
> > > This time, I decided to do a clean reinstall of RedHat 5.2
> > > before installing Gnome 1.0, so I did so, applied all relevant
> > > updates to the 5.2 distribution, upon which I was still able
> > > to triple-boot.  I then followed the directions on the GNOME
> > > website to install for a RedHat 5.2 rpm install, and besides
> > > getting messages about failed dependencies when installing
> > > the glib & gtk+ packages (which I got around by doing an
> > > rpm -ivh <pkg> --force), everything went fairly smoothly.
> > > However, upon rebooting into Win98, the screen just hangs
> > > with a solitary flashing '_' at the top left of a blank
> > > screen.  I suspect that my MBR (master boot record) has
> > > been trounced.  Windoze NT & linux still boot properly,
> > > however.  Since something similar happened to me before,
> > > I am starting to see a cause and effect by installing
> > > GNOME.  If anyone has any possible solutions (besides
> > > reinstalling Windoze 98), please let me know.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
> 
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