[lug] LILO and Windows Safe Mode

[Mike McCallister]

Gary,

In Win98, holding down the ctrl key before the cloud screen usually gives you
the boot menu. The problem is when clicking Windows in LILO, the cloud
immediately comes up -- it's already too late. I'll still try hitting F4,
though. Thanks.

Mike

On Sun, 05 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun Nov 05, 2000 at 03:26:41 -0800, Mike McCallister wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> > 
> > I'm running Corel/Debian and Win98 SE on the same physical hard drive. As per
> > usual, Windows is acting strangely and will not completely boot (it loads the
> > desktop and as the taskbar is supposed to load, it hangs). Unfortunately, I
> > cannot get into safe mode to figure out what's hanging the process up. When
> > LILO boots to Windows, it starts the normal Win98 boot process (i.e., the cloud
> > screen comes up), and there's no way to get to the boot menu and/or safe mode.
> > I've tried using the Win98 startup disk, but that was no help at all (surprise,
> > surprise). 
> > 
> 
> I think you hit <F4> just before the cloud (just after selecting Windows
> from Lilo) to get a boot menu from which you may select safe mode.
> Also, I'd suggest that once you get Windows functioning you install
> TweakUI and use it to turn off the cloud so that you can see what the
> system is up to while booting windows.
> 
> -- 
>   Gary Masters
>   KCØHQW
>   gmasters at dotsplat.org
> 
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