My mail seems to be getting returned a lot lately though it also appears to get through, not sure where the problem is.
As to editing lilo, be sure you are convinced of what you are doing, try the following:
At a command konsole, sign in as su:
$su
Password
Then:
#vim /etc/lilo.conf
Key the letter "i"
Arrow down to what you want to remove and do the "Delete/Backspace" thing to edit out, then:
Type in:
:wq
And press enter.
AND DON'T FORGET THIS NEXT PART!
Issue the following:
#/sbin/lilo
And if you get errors, go back to the start and correct the bits indicated by the errors.
Enjoy
Frank
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 07:45, martin brandt wrote:
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?)
