W. Chris Shank on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:32:38 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] LILO weirdness


regarding the boot disks, there is a site called bootdisk.com, they have TONS of downloadable boot disks.


Jason wrote:

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On Friday 12 July 2002 21H:02, Greg Lopp wrote:


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Jason wrote:


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On Thursday 11 July 2002 15H:09, Greg Lopp wrote:


After some swaping in and out of ide HDs a few days ago, which
ended with a return to my original HW config, I am no longer able
to boot into win98. After the LILO menu, it says "Non-system


I am tempted to ask, "Is this a bad thing?". But, I'll try to be nice.


Yea, I saw that joke coming.



Couldn't resist. :)



Any clues or pointers?


You created a "Win98 Rescue Disk", right? If so, have you tried that?


Still going for the easy jokes? ;)
Sure I created one, when I installed it four years and two moves
ago.  Chances are that it is long, long gone.....


Nope - It was hanging out in the shoe box with all the Mac disks
that are even older.



Yup, got some of those (except replace Mac w/ Apple II - never really got into the Macs).




Assuming you haven't or that it hasn't helped:


<snip>



If so, and nobody has a better suggestion, you might try doing a "sys
c:". That should transfer the basic DOS boot files to your C: drive
without erasing any data (You might try this with the DOS system files
installed under the Windows directory - I think, I forget where). If that
works, you ought to at least be able to boot to the C: drive. From there,
you should be able to repair the Win98 installation. I forget some of the
details. Haven't worked with Win98/ME very extensively for a while.


OK, I've got the system files back in place, but there appear to
be a few corrupted files and a registry problem. It's telling me
to boot to a command prompt and run scanreg - which promptly
fails or locks up.



I'm sure there are some registry recovery-type programs out there by now, but I have no experience w/ any of these.




Partition magic is giving me an error while looking at that
partition.....something about the partition not ending on a
cylindar?




Not sure why this is happening. I don't use partition magic, though. I don't suppose that you actually tried M$ support? I know, "ha ha". Well, you might look in the knowledgebase on microsoft.com, or even try calling partition magic or check their website. Yeah, you've probably already done that. Just thought I'd ask.




Oh this sucks. I might be able to get my Win98 install cd back
and reinstall most of the apps, but who knows where all the
drivers have gone.....



Sounds like a Paula Cole song...

Well, the good news is that you got your data, right? I would back that up before you did anything "more creative". I've personally lost a few battles fighting WinME w/ the original symptom ("Non-system disk error" or "No OS found"). The WinME partitions seem to no longer be backward compatible w/ old MS-DOS 6.2, etc. So, the same problem turns out to be even more of a bummer.

You should also be able to mount the VFAT or FAT32 partition under Linux to backup the data, etc. Just mounting it and copying *from* it should pose no problems with corruption. You might also try something like dd.

Cheers,
Jason Nocks
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