I am back in 9.1. using the rescue disc. How do I get to choose between 9.1 and 9.2 at bootup?Gary Montalbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:33:59 -0400:
Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now only 9.2 would boot up. Got back to 9.1 by using the rescue disk on CD1. An article I read about dual boot of Mandrake said the bootloader should be on the HD instead of the MBR. Unfortunately, without a reinstall I don't know how to change it.
I have windows installed and that was picked up by 9.2.
Suggestions please.
Go back into 9.2 which has installed the lilo in MBR. Login as root into a terminal (by typing 'su' and giving the root password in the next line).
1. Type 'lilo -u' which removes lilo from the MBR. 2. Type 'lilo -b /dev/hda5' if your root partition of 9.2 is on hda5.
Reboot with your CD1 of 9.1. At the Welcome screen type F1. At the prompt type 'rescue'. The installer starts but switches to rescue mode soon. Choose the first option "Re-install LILO in MBR" or similar. It looks for a Mandrake 9.1 installation and hopefully finds yours. After that you can start again from 9.1 and choose a way to integrate 9.2 into your 9.1 LILO.
I had to do this today (because of carelessness) and it worked.
wobo wobo
Gary
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