well first you should leave the error message and if possible your /etc/lilo.conf file too.if u have a suse boot cd i suggest you use the manual boot option from the CD to boot into your OS. hope this helps. Rishabh
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Vijay Raghavan wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
