Lightning struck down and entered my computer via my modem and affected, among other things, my Windows XP Boot (that was the system I was on, when lightning struck). I could not reboot Windows XP but was actually able to boot into Liux (RH 8). I ended up having reinstall Windows XP in order to see if the problems I was seeing under Linux were also present under Windows. I had understood that I could do a rescue boot from my CD ROM and therefore thought it was not necessary to make a special boot disk. Now I see that I misunderstood something. I was originally using Grub for my dual boot. (I have to separate physical disks - one for each OS). However, the bootloader got written over when I installed Windows XP. I was not able to get back into Linux. I tried using Rescue on the CD ROM but I get the following messages: uncompressing Linux crc error -- system halted and the system freezes. I tried a friends Partion Magic 8.0 which has Boot Magic. Partition Magic was able to recognize all my Linux partitions and Linux also showed up in BootMagic's boot list, but I was not able to boot up. The screen remains blank, when I tried via Boot Magic. I have since gotten a hold of Linux 9 and have decided to do the following: - uninstall Boot Magic (as I'm afraid it will interfere with the dual boot loader, that comes with Linux) - either do an upgrade to Linux 9, if possible (I'm afraid it won't be if I can't even get into Linux 8) otherwise do a fresh installation of Linux 9. The only thing with the latter is that I imagine I will lose all my data in the Linux drive. Any suggestions? (Other than get a ligtningrod for the building!) Marie-Thérèse -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
