   Noooo! LILO screwed my Master Book Record!
  So I was loading Linux onto a seperate hard drive the other day, but it all went wrong when I said to choose the EASY setup for LILO - the bootloader.Anyway, long story short I couldn''t get LILO to view my Windows partition (NTFS, XP Home) whatsoever, even with Probe under KDE.So, I unhooked the hard drive and booted up with my master only, and guess what? All I got was a flash of zeros and then my monitor did the "no signal" deal.This is very shitty.I''m assuming the MBR (master boot record) is seriously screwed over.Every solution I look at requires an XP Home CD - but my computer did NOT come with an XP Home CD.I am seriously pissed off.What do I do?If I don''t fix this soon, my mother will kill me.   
  I had the EXACT same problem the other day. Lost everything You need a util called "FixMBR", unfortunately from a WinXP rescue disk   [edited by - downgraded on February 7, 2004 12:26:29 AM];quote:Original post by Drevay  If I don''t fix this soon, my mother will kill me.Can I have your computer after you''re dead?;  I''ve found "fdisk /mbr" in windows to do great things when this happens.  Although you might need to reinstal LILO and Linux.   ;  GRUB > LILO ;  It "screwed [your] Master Book Record!"? Wow, I guess that really puts a crimp in your library cataloguing. ;  Crap, dude, I remember when I screwed up my master book record. I had to go through and write them all down again.   [edited by - unferth on February 7, 2004 12:46:38 AM];  Usually you can get the CDs that *SHOULD* (imho) have came with your computer by contacting the people who made the thing.See, their ASSumption is that most people don''t have a flipping clue and will never use the CDs, thus they don''t include them and save a few cents (well whatever the cost is, I''ve no clue to be honest). However, if you have a clue (mentioning that we had already replaced the video card did the trick for Dad''s HP) you should be able to get your cds with out too much hassle.In theory at least ;  Use GRUB. Only old-hardware/low-support systems use LILO nowaways. Tell me if you want to see my grub.conf file - I use a dualboot with the /dev/hda1 partition my NTFS partition and the rest (/dev/hda5-8) are Linux partitions sitting on the (/dev/hda2) extended partition.   ;  Do you know what you''re doing? 