What about a plain bootdisk. It should have a simple text editor on it
G On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Benjamin Zhou wrote: >Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:14:05 -0400 >From: Benjamin Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >Resent-From: [email protected] > > >Hi, > >I tried all the possible combinations mentioned in the response, none of >them works. I also tried with a grub bootdisk, but it lists a few >choices, none of them works. It seems that I have to have a working linux >box to do edit to a config file on the grub disk, which can not be >accessed from within Win2k. > >any more suggestions, thanks a loooot for your time. > >Ben > >>From: Rolf Heckemann >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:37:56 +0100 >> >>On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: >> > > After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access >> > > my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk. >> > >> > I don't know if this will work out of w2k, but it's worth a shot. >Note this >> > will only work if you can boot the machine from a floppy, and if you >know >> > the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1 etc) >> > >> > - First, go to a debian mirror site, say >> > >> >http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-20 >1-04-15/images-1.44/ >> > >> > and get the file called rescue.bin >> > >> > - Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get >rawrite1.zip or >> > rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.) >> > >> > - unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank >floppy. >> > - Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type >> > rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help. >> > >> > -Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a >seperate one), >> > set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart >the >> > machine from the hard disk. >> > >> > I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a >Mandrake >> > CD lying around, which works along the same lines. >> > >> > BTW, if you don't know the location of your root partition, and you >can find >> > a Mandrake CD or something that works similarly, the CD has a >self-contained >> > installation on it, allowing you to mount filesystems and determine >which one's >> > the root. >> > >> > > thanks a lot for any tip. >> > >> > No prob. Hope this does the trick. >> >>It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few >>times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a >>grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different >>Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard >>disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot >>partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet). >> >>To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you >>if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped). >> >>All the best >> >>Rolf >> >> >>-- >>Rolf Heckemann >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >________________________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a >subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
