On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:19:45AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good Linux to e'body, > > A "PC w/o CDROM - Floppy Drive" have lost it's LILO. The only way > to boot to linux partition "hda3" was thru this LILO prompt.
Hmm ... LILO is on the MBR, and that has been overwritten ! > > The DOS partition does not have loadlin, so that alternative is > closed. The concerned guy did "fdisk /mbr" to remove some virus > after reading some magazine ! > That meand he has put a M$ MBR, and he can boot into DOS but not Linux ... > > Is there any alternative - other than to tell the poor fellow to > bring his HDD/Cabinat from his nearby village ? > Pull out the 1.44 from your box ... walk over to his machine. Open cover, search for loose power/ data cables in the loose things that you see ... check if it is A: or B: after booting into DOS. Put a floppy containing loadlin.exe, and dual boot through config. sys or autoexec.bat. You may take a peek at my home page, if you forgot how to do it [http://geocities.com/usmbish/hdi.html]. > > PS: Also can we save this Dual-boot record of LILO - while in > DOS, so next time if same problem is faced, the guy can re- > install it from DOS it-self ! > Yes, you need a copy of the boot sector as a file. There are some old software available for this. Alternatively, do through a linux rescue/ stand-alone distro, and dd the image. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Console gibberish (#1) LOST #018 To clear gibberish all over the screen (e.g. after cat of a compressed or binary file) : Method #1: Use ANSI escape sequence: $echo -e "\033c" ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
