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i hade and Win 2000 and and Linux 6.2 on a machine, the Lilo boot worked properly . . after i had changed the Partion size with Partion Magic in w2k and rebooted my computer hangs and just says "Li" in the upper left corner . . can some one plz explain to me where the problem is, can i get the machine to at least boot up with windows?

Regards
/Nicke

Your boot partition is hosed. You need to boot from a recovery disk (floppy/cdrom) and repair. In dows you can repair the mbr by running "fdisk /mbr". In linux, you can rerun lilo to fix it.

One question i cant understand in your scenario. Did you changed the partition size or modify it after you installed Linux & Win2k ? or Before you install them ?

If you modify after the Installation of Both OS
- The system hangs at the Lilo prompt because one of the possibility chances, you have modified the /proc filesystem by moving the partition around on Win2k (Part of the filesystem could be modified/removed)

Now you are saying that you cant run Lilo or invoke it anymore. My suggestion try to boot to Win2k using emergency disk and check the Partition magic Disk space size. One more tips ! Did you installed Boot magic ? Could be one of your system saver if you did installed it. Try to remap Boot Magic using its config file and try to detect both OS's. Might work. Give a try.. Do Post back