As you can see by the title, I am having a problem with the LILO boot loader, but I need to ask my own question because all the ones I've found on google and the internet are for linux.
I tried to install linux on my computer in August. I had slackware 10, and everything was working fine but I was having some trouble configuring the libraries and everyday was a headache with linux so I uninstalled it around feb. 7th. Unfortunately, LILO does not get removed with the installion and trying to uninstall it without linux installed was a "risk", so I just kept it (seeing as I didn't mind). Since feb. 7th, all the way up to this morning (may 6th) LILO has booted fine, Windows XP has booted fine and life was peachy, until this morning. I woke up, turned on the PC to check any mail before work and... BOOM, there it was.
Where LILO is supposed to load, it says L 99 99 99 99 and has about 200 99s, then it just stops and I can only press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart, where it just happens again.
So, I've gone online but all the problems seem to be upon install or uninstall of linux, what was done months ago. This problem doesn't seem to happen just out of the blue. I didn't touch the mbr, or any out of the ordinary programs, used any windows maintenance programs, or touched the computer's vital files yesterday. In fact, I spent my day online yesterday doing the normal things I do everyday.
Now, I have seen that the way to fix it is to repair the MBR, but there is a risk to this that could end up in deleting my whole hard drive. Does anyone know what happened, why, and how to fix it?l
