Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> martin brandt wrote:
>
> >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3
> >>>and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits
> >>>
> >>reinstalling
> >>
> >>>it in the usual manner
> >>>
> >>>What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose
> >>>consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the
> partition
> >>>(cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and
> >>>then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry
>
> >>>in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a
> >>>seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you
> >>>have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction,
> >>>as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle
> the
> >>>newbie.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this,
> >>>
> >>>mkdir /mnt/temp
> >>>ls /mnt
> >>>temp
> >>>mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp
> >>>
> >>>punch up vi something like this,
> >>>
> >>>vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf
> >>>
> >>>and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>--
> >>linux counter #167806
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in
> /etc/
> >and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called
>
> >something else?
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> Hmmm,
> Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted
>
> You don't find /mnt/temp,
> you create it in the rescue consule, like this,
>
> mkdir /mnt/temp
>
> then check to see that you did,
>
> ls /mnt/temp
>
> returns, temp (amoungst other , probably)
>
> then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this,
>
> mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp
>
> where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed
> the OS.
>
> then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf
> and look at it, like this,
>
> cd (means change directory)
>
> cd /mnt/temp/etc/
>
> that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS,
> and from there you can display the
> file on screen with,
>
> cat /lilo.conf
>
> then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition
> and report, we can take it from there.
>
> John
>
>
>
> --
> John Richard Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i
found:
other=/dev/hda3
label="old_windows"
table=/dev/hda
Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems
to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems
when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how?
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