New Debian Install - HELP!

[Alex Snow]

Have you tried running fixboot and fixmbr from the windows recovery 
console? Also Testdisk has some options for fixing problem MBRs, 
though I haven't used any of them yet.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:57:59PM 
-0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Well, things are even worse now.  In trying to isolate my problem, I
> took out the new drive that I was installing linux on and replaced it
> with my original (second drive) which had my old working slackware on
> it and I still can't boot.  With my original drive, I even did a lilo
> - -r /mnt from my slackware CD and that appeared to go fine; I can't say
> I've ever experienced this kind of problem before.  I'm trying to do
> everything to avoid having to completely re-install windows.  I
> unfortunately need windows on my box for some time yet.  For whatever
> reason, my MBR won't take the loader or won't boot for me.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:32:08PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:55:44AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> > > The solution is to  
> > > not chroot.  Instead, mount your boot partition under /boot or /mnt/boot  
> > > and change your lilo.conf as needed temporarily.  Run something like:
> > >
> > > lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> > >
> > > That should hopefully work, or at least give a useful error message.   
> > 
> > After you've got your lilo.conf setup the way you want, don't forget
> > to do
> > lilo -r /mnt
> > to reinstall lilo.
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