Once you get your Linux file system up, as root, type "lilo".
> Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening. I
> had been using LILO to choose OS. Windows is on
> primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave (hdb).
> LILO was set to use hda as the bootable partition.
> Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk and
> partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux partition
> either. I made the classic newbie move here.
>
> I have full read write access to my linux file system
> thanks to a rescue CDrom. I just need to know which
> files to change so that I can get LILO going again.
> Does anyone know what those would be? I'm at a loss.
>
> I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> bootable which didn't work. I also tried hdb1 which
> is my /boot partition. No go. hdb5 is linux swap,
> hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home. It seems that the
> windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of hdb
> because partition magic reports a small extended dos
> partition on that drive where there formerly were
> none.
>
>
> Its 2:30 am and thats what I know. Thanks for any
> help folks.
>
>
> Dacia
>
>
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