[lug] LILO, RED HAT7.1 and XP home

[Scott Herod]

David Novotny wrote:

> Howdy,
> I killed the MBR on my system trying to do a dual boot XP home and RH 
> 7.1 install.
> I can get to the linux using a boot disk but I can't reach my WIN side 
> anymore.   I can't boot from the local hard disk even into llinux all 
> i get is a single "L" on the screen when I try.

Hello David.  Probably unrelated to your problem, but I've only seen the 
"L" symptom when I changed lilo.conf or updated a kernel referenced by 
lilo.conf and forgot to actually run the lilo command.  (A good argument 
for using grub.)

Scott