> 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. 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 !
Smart guy !!!! doing something without knowing the results.
> Is there any alternative - other than to tell the poor fellow to bring his
> HDD/Cabinat from his nearby village ?
Definitely there is .
There are many ways going about this.
(1) Find a file called loadlin in your distro CD it is propabaly in autoboot
directory,
then just give the following command d:\loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3
ro
(assuming hda3 is your root partition)
(2) Copy the files loadlin and vmlinuz to a directory say c:\Linux,
and the create a batch file linux.bat and just copy the line below
into the batch file.
c:\linux\loadlin c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3
PS: the above line is one single line.
Just execute the batch file.
log in to your box as root then execute lilo -v or edit
\etc\lilo.conf to make any changes.
-- Manjunath.
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