Boot loader problem - how to get rid of Boot Magic

Michael Sammartano volinaz at cox.net
Mon Jul 31 10:57:07 MST 2006


My guess is to try to boot into windows, and disable BootMagic, see my link. Sounds like the pc is looking to boot from bootmagic, not lilo

http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/pm4-boot.shtml


---- joe <joe at tlnf.com> wrote: 
> 
> Thanks again. 
> 
> I did find a fix for the rescue-reinstall boot loader problem 
> at MandrivaExpert.com.  However, after getting a "successful" 
> reinstall of the bootloader, when I tried to boot, up came 
> Boot Magic again.  So now I guess the question is, how to get 
> rid of Boot Magic so it won't interfere with Lilo? 
> 
> Joe at Actionline.com 
> 
> -------------
> Michael last wrote: 
> Now you got me stumped.. I use Grub. I do know there is a way to fix
> your problem, but now you have to use the list. If there is not a issue
> saving data, I would just install as new. If there is a data issue,
> reinstall, and do not wipe out partitions.use the existing ones, and do
> not reformat. I have done this with SuSE and retained all of my data and
> program files. There should be an option though to reinstall/repair the
> bootloader though. I would also recommend googling for mandriva
> bootloader repair, or something along those lines. Google can be your
> best friend, it is mine ;) 
> 
> 
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