Hello Bob, Thanks for the hint. You made my day.
I took my Potato discs, booted with rescue root=/dev/hda3 and got into Linux. Then I ran install-mbr /dev/hda3 and it reinstalled the MBR. Holding down the shift key now lets me choose which partion I want to boot (choice between 1FA). I haven't got the old situation back (with the new red LILO choice screen), but I can get into my system, so I'm happy. I need to re-examine my lilo.conf and maybe check some other options for install-mbr. We'll see. Cheers, Hans At 04:35 PM 10/29/01 +0100, R. Alexander wrote: >Did you try booting with potato's CD with the parpameter rescue >root=/dev/hdyx ?? >I have a Linux system at the last 2GB of a 30GB IDE disk, which I believe is >way after the 1024 cyl but the LILO level I use seems to be able to boot >just fine ... >Did you reissue a lilo -v against a valod lilo.conf ? >Did you look at GRUB a LILO alternative of which I heard wonders ? >Hope it can be useful. Bob > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Hans Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 3:42 >Subject: No boot after reinstall > > >> I've had to reinstall Win98 on my notebook (hda1 >> 1800MB) which had Debin unstable (hda3 2500 MB). Lilo >> was wiped of the MBR, but my attempt to reinstall it >> with my Potato CDs failed (and I've done this before >> and it worked then). It complained about being above >> the 1024 cilinder. Might this be because the CDs are >> Potato and the installed version is Sid? >> > >
