On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake.
> > I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to
> > tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now,
> > how can I do this if its possible?
>
Ahhh...you still HAVE a linux system. Get two blank floppies. Boot to
your current version of Linux, go to your Mandrake CD, type the
following command: dd if=/dev/<cdrom>/rescue.img of=/dev/fd0 <enter>
and
dd if=/dev/<cdrom>/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 <enter>
Then, stick the "boot" floppy into the floppy drive, reboot the
system and type "rescue" at the prompt. When prompted switch the
disks and continue.
Thenk, do what others have suggested, edit your lilo.conf and then
rerun lilo. You'll probably have to specify /dev/hda5/sbin/lilo in
order for the system to know where LILO is. This SHOULD work!
John
