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

["Spud" <spud has a godcomplex com>]

    Put the following line in your lilo.conf:
linear

    When LILO pauses like that, it means (I believe) there are conflicts
with the disk
geometry. Hope that helps.

>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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