Help Boot got screwed!

[Didimo Grimaldo]

I am in desperate need of serious help. As I mentioned I have been trying to get my system to boot as it did. Well, things haven't worked out they way I expected.

1) Having followed the advice of commands to do in the grub prompt (when booted from the grub floppy), it now seems (actually it IS a fact) grub somehow installed itself on the MBR!!!

Because of this, now I am not able to boot Windows anymore. And even though grub.conf in /boot/grub/ has an entry for WinXP it seems to be ignored. So one way or another I can't boot my Windows XP on /dev/hda3

How can I make GRUB do that?

Also, I thought GRUB had a graphical interface like the one I had in RH7.2 but I am only presented with a rudimentary shell prompt.

2) LILO is still installed on my system, it has an entry for linux and another for WinXP but even when I run "lilo" it still never gets executed on boot.


So, is there a way I can go back to DOS/Windows (sorry I have no Windows boot floppy) to do FORMAT /MBR (that is the command, isn't it? I want to make sure I don't screw this further) ?

Man, this boot thing is one tough unfriendly cookie! all I want is a graphical boot screen with Linux and WinXP as options.

Hopefully somebody can help soon, I am at a loss.

Regards,
Emilio

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