Re: Cannot boot Windows after running lilo; "A disk read error occurred" "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

From: David Jones (dj_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/20/04

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    Bill Unruh wrote:
    > David Jones <dj@nospam.com> writes:
    >
    > ]Hi,
    >
    > ]My Mandrake 10.1 dual-boot (Windows XP/Mandrake) was working fine until
    > ] I accidentally ran "lilo" (from Mandrake). The command completed
    > ]without errors but now at the boot menu I can no longer boot into
    > ]Microsoft Windows. It freezes with a black screen and plain text message:
    >
    > ]A disk read error occurred
    > ]Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
    >
    > ]other=/dev/hda1
    > ] label="microsoft_windows"
    > ] table=/dev/hda
    > ] map-drive=0x80
    > ] to=0x81
    > ] map-drive=0x81
    > ] to=0x80
    >
    > This says that your windows is on your second hard drive-- the slave on the
    > first ide slot. The map commands say to make the system believe that the
    > master should be treated as though it were the second drive and the slave
    > as though it were the first.

    Bill was right. I commented-out the four lines from map-drive=0x80 to
    to=0x80, ran lilo, and successfully booted into Windows.

    I think I had a second hard drive slotted into my IBM Thinkpad
    "Ultra-Bay" when I accidentally ran "lilo" to cause the problem.

    Thanks Bill.

    DJ

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