Dacia....once you're booted with the rescue system and mounted
your / directory you need to use the chroot (something like
'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot is the temporary
mountpoint for your / directory) command to change the current
system to using your root directory as / (wherever you've
mounted it). Then reinstall lilo with a /sbin/lilo command.
Alan
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
>
> Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all.
> I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to
> read/write my linux file system but the system has not
> loaded linux from my hard drive in that case. It is a
> live linux file system loaded from the rescue cdrom to
> RAM. A ramdisk.
>
> Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 so I
> need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do
> that. I can't find any descriptions of how to do that
> anywhere and I don't want to re-install because this
> seems like a completely recoverable situation.
>
> Dacia
> --- Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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> >
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