From: Tom Pfeifer <mailmisc@snet.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...??
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:09:16 -0400
This is a guess based on your description of what happens. It almost
sounds like you may have, at one point, had this line in your lilo.conf
file...
boot=/dev/hda1
....and the rest of the file was the same as it is now.
That would have installed lilo in the boot sector of /dev/hda1, and it
may still be there, even though you have since installed Lilo in the MBR
(/dev/hda). So when you choose win95, it turns things over to the Lilo
boot sector in /dev/hda1 which then gives you the same menu.
Linux would still boot normally in that case, but choosing win95 would
keep looping you back to the same boot sector in /dev/hda1, and give you
the menu again.
Have you tried booting from a Win95 floppy disk and see if you can
access that partition from a DOS prompt? Because if what I'm suggesting
did happen, your Win95 boot record is overwritten with Lilo, and you
won't be able to access your C drive.
Actually, I hope I'm wrong for your sake.
Tom