On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lior Hammer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a system running Mandrake 8.1 and Win2k.
> first, i installed win2k.
> after that, i installed Mandrake.
> because of a problem, i reinstalled win2k.
> The probem:
> w2k remove Lilo(!)
> how could i restore it?
The standard convention here is:
1. boot into your system
2. run lilo (/sbin/lilo)
You may now safely reboot to linux
The difficult part of the process is, of course, (1).
Mandrake's installation CD, at least of version 8.1, is a very useful
rescue "floppy". Does quite a good job at automating the process of
mounting your old system:
1.1. boot your system from the first installation CD
1.2. press Esc or F1 to get to a Lilo: prompt. Write there "rescue" and
press Enter
1.3. if all goes well, after a minute r so (or maybe a bit longer) you get
a rescue system, with your original system mounted under /mnt . run:
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
you should now have a root shell on your original system
2. run:
lilo
3.1. run:
exit
3.2. run:
reboot
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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