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Old 08-25-2005
Zex Zex is offline
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Boot Err

Hey guys, your friendly neighborhood newbie comes to you once again, with a question of his idiocracy! Yes, it's me. Okay, sorry. Im done.

Here's the problem. Im running Mandrake Right now, that boots fine, blah. Im trying to boot into windows however, which is running on another drive. I've got VMWare 5.0 running, and I told it to utliize the whole drive ( The one that windows is on ). It runs through BIOS, then jumps into some BS screen that's like:

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Or something to that extent. Thoughts? Any ideas would be awesome to hear. Thanks again.

Zex
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Old 08-25-2005
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Was Windows installed first and on the first active Drive?If yes ,I would suggest a corrupted Lilo/Grub.
Check the boyz over here ,they are good at this Linux stuff.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/menu16.html
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Old 12-18-2005
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I've meet that message while using lilo before..Try running lilo as root and restart.