Yes, I tried, but too late as I had already screwed things up doing the conf
by hand. See my other replies. Thanks, I'll know abut that part of
linuxconf the next time.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: James J. Capone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo
> Did you try to do the LinuxConf command and install lilo from there ??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shoemaker
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:46 PM
> To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake
> Subject: [newbie] Lilo
>
> Sigh....well today UPS left me a package with my Microsoft Win98 SE update
> in it, so I (gulp) installed it. It overwrote my lilo on the mbr of sda.
> My system consists of two scsi drives, scsi 0 has Win 98 in one partition
> and scsi 1 has mdk 6.0 w/3 partitions a swap, /boot and /. When I
executed
> /sbin/lilo I was told there was no
> /etc/lilo.conf. So I created the below file in hopes I was correct with
the
> settings and it would work. When I again executed /sbin/lilo it seemed to
> access only scsi 1 and when I rebooted the mbr was still under Microsoft
> control.
>
> boot=/dev/sdb
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sdb6
> read-only
> other=/dev/sda
> label=dos
> table=/dev/sda
>
> What must I do to get lilo re-installed on scsi 0 and are my settings in
my
> new lilo.conf correct (what happened to lilo.conf anyway, why did it
> disappear from /etc)?
>
> Alan
>
