On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:23:05 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
> Well after reading some of the LILO manual (which I should have done > more of!) I realize what I have done. > > I first ran lilo with boot=/dev/hda. Since I didn't want lilo installed > at all on my P90 and I ran lilo as an accident I thought I may as well > try to get it to boot my linux partition on /dev/hdb1. So I edited > my /etc/lilo.conf file except this time I had boot=/dev/hda1. I read > that this is bad because /dev/hda1 is my DOS partition! So I really > hosed things up and had lilo on both /dev/hda & /dev/hda1. Yep, I thought so. I did that once before. > > Several nice people have e-mailed me and told me to do a fdisk /mbr > to wipe out lilo on the mbr (/dev/hda) but what about lilo on /dev/hda1? > > Have I trashed my DOS partiton information? What can I do now? Lilo most likely backed it up. Boot back into your Linux system. If you can't boot into linux use a floppy to do so. If you don't have a floppy you can use the rescue disk to get to your system and use dd to create a floppy that will boot your into your Linux system. Once you have done so just type: /sbin/lilo -u The -u option will restore your backup. > I did run fdisk and the partition information looked correct. It knew > the partition was all dos and it was bootable/primary. Yes but I'll bet if you try typing dir c:\ at the a:\ prompt DOS won't be able to read it, because the boot sector contains essential FAT info. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Perry Piplani http://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perrypip.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
