On 22 Jun, Axalon wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> I am not sure if there is a SCSI thingg i am missing..(i have never had
>> the fortune to work with SCSI HDD)...but i did that to myself before...
>> I reinstalled Win95 on my system adn forgot that the mBR would be
>> overwritten...i could not even get to my linux system to run lilo
>> again...so i booted using a boot/rescue disk (i use tomsrtbt...tell me
>> if u need links to it)...then i mounted my linux partition and reran
>> lilo...(i had to chroot the lilo command so that it goes to the
>> etc/lilo.conf on my mounted volume...
>>
>> hope this helps..
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> tomsrtbt is supplied on the cdroms (and of course on mirrors)
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> lilo accepts a parm -r, it can cause problems useing chroot
> say you booted an old kernel with different lib's and such
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Oops .. i forgot .. i got into trouble running lilo together with
chroot in the above example...u r right i remember that i subsequently
used a switch (probably th e -r u said ) to specify the root dir...
