Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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?
(P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?)
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