On Saturday 01 December 2001 02:45, you wrote: > On Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 10:21:25AM +0100, Han wrote: > > Following irc sometime and a often reoccuring theme is that windows > > removes lilo and the newbs can't get linux back again. There is a very > > easy sollution to this problem. I have been using it for quite some > > time now and It allways works and the recovery is allways > > straightforward. Much easier than any conventional solution. > > > > 1) Install lilo on the linux partition. > > > > 2) Install GAG as the bootmanager. > > > > Gag is : GPL, braindead-easy, good looking, easy to recover. > > > > I think it would be a good idea if we install Mandrake like that. Much > > more newbie friendly. > > Why not just tell people to make boot floppies like they're supposed > to? =) Then it's just: > > boot from floppy > as root run "/sbin/lilo -v"
i don't have a floppy drive, floppy is the devil > > viola, next reboot you're fine. I don't see the point of another boot > manager. We already have one. -- 9:11pm up 4:53, 0 users, load average: 1.18, 1.13, 1.04
