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

[Tom Barraza <tbarraza qfr com>]

I can't boot from a DOS floppy, so I guess I have bigger
problems than I hoped for ...

At this point, I guess I'll have to reinstall everything and
not install GNOME until most of the bugs have been worked out
of it, at least until the bugs that trash my MBR have been
identified and fixed.

Looks like it's back to AfterStep for me ...


"Jesse D . Sightler" wrote:
> 
> 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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