This should be fixable with some additional information. Looks like you
need a new 'stanza' for the 9.0 install.

What is the name of the drive 9.0 is installed on (e.g. hdb)?
What are the partitions for /boot and / on that drive (e.g. /dev/hdb1 =
/boot, etc.)?
What is the name of the boot image on the 9.0 boot partition? (e.g.
vmlinuz)?

With that info a number of us should be able to help you edit the
lilo.conf file so that you can access your 9.0 installation.

Terry Smith

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 15:10, Anne Wilson wrote:
> After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo 
> stage.  Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0  This was a 
> really bad idea.  It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 
> 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible.
> 
> I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this:
> 
> map=/boot/map
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/uk.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> ignore-table
> disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>       label=linux
>       root=/dev/hdf1
>       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>       append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp"
>       read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>       label=failsafe
>       root=/dev/hdf1
>       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>       append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
>       read-only
> other=/dev/hde1
>       label=windows
>       table=/dev/hde
> other=/dev/fd0
>       label=floppy
>       unsafe
> 
> What is stopping this working?  Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being 
> overwritten? There must be a way out of this.
> 
> How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing?  I'm devastated.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
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