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hi,

Installed Linux 1.2.8 / slackware ok. Installed Lilo to boot
Linux and DOS partitions. tried booting to DOS and Linux through Lilo,
and it worked fine.

I powered off the machine. went and had good night sleep, Got up next
morning, powered the machine on, got to the Lilo prompt, typed DOS and
now I get this error:

                            loading DOS
                            Error x04
                            loading DOS
                            Error x04

And these messages keeps printing on the screen forever...

I still can boot to Linux just fine.

How can one now boot to DOS? I can offcourse boot into DOS using my DOS
system disk,

If I then do FIDK/MBR (to reinstall my DOS boot record), I'll erase what
LILO write in there. and I will not be able to boot to Linux.

Is there a way to repair the dameged MBR so That I can boot to dos and
linux again.

Any ideas what to do?

thanks
nasser
a_4_days_old_linux_user

Quote:>If I then do FIDK/MBR (to reinstall my DOS boot record), I'll erase what

              ^^^^^^^^

meant to type "FDISK /MBR"

nasser

On a machine with dos and Linux, use Loadlin, not LILO. Using Loadlin you
don't need to mess with the mbr. All you need is a copy of the Linux kernel
image somewhere on a dos partition (you use Linux to put it there, after
mounting the dos-drive as msdos). Then you can use a simple config.sys menu
to select the OS of the day, or even boot Linux straight out of running dos.
Loadlin does a `logical reload' of the machine, cleaning the memory and loading
the kernel, which then boots as usual.

Hope this helps a bit...

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Nasser,

Once you've recreated your Master Boot (for DOS), enter Linux and re-run INSTALL to recreate the
LILO disk/partition information.

I boot off a 540Mb Linux disk and (through LILO) into a 1Gb Windows 95 disk and it works a treat.
Doing the above cured any teething problem my setup had.

Regards from London,

Hassan

[...]
   I powered off the machine. went and had good night sleep, Got up next
   morning, powered the machine on, got to the Lilo prompt, typed DOS and
   now I get this error:

                               loading DOS
                               Error x04
                               loading DOS
                               Error x04
[...]
   How can one now boot to DOS? I can offcourse boot into DOS using my DOS
   system disk,
[...]

Most probably you made a mistake when entering the "dos-partition" in
/etc/lilo.config. Check the DOS-section very carefully.
Didn't you wrote /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 ??

I'm pretty sure, it's somethink like that.
Correct the wrong entry and rerun /sbin/lilo.

Greetings jue
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