Hello, I had a dual boot system with redhat linux and winxp. Winxp was giving a lot of problems. so decided to remove it and install win 2000. did it and as usual, lilo was gone.
I have faced such a problem earlier too but I always used to reinstalled linux and I dont want to take the same old step. The steps I took: 1) used knoppix, was able to mount the root, was able to edit lilo.conf (used vi) but was unable to run lilo. whenever i ran lilo, it gave some error saying 'there's some problem in lilo.conf at line number xx'. I searched for some sample lilo.conf and there was no mistake. 2) used 2-3 floppy bootable linux distributions but was unseccussful. 3) since i can't go into dos, i can't use loadlin. i used a dos bootable floppy and tried loadlin from there but to no avail. 4) I even used the RHL 8.0 first CD to get into the rescue mode and try from there. but it says that there aren't any linux partitions present in the hard disk. ufff, there are i guess because explore2fs is able to read the partitions. NOW WHAT SHOULD I DO, I NEED LINUX TO STAND UP AND START RUNNING. Just the day before I lost linux, i apt-get_ed it. It took precious 3 hours of mine. regards, vijay. -- Vijay Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
