ok.. The situation was.. My friend found the iso of WinXP.. So I tried installing that.. And I guess WinXP killed lilo.. But I kinda expected that so I had my Linux boot disk ready to use that to come back to linux and run lilo to install it back... And that's what I did... and it acted wierd when it started up and I somehow got linux booted but X can't start.. but I ran lilo anyways.. then that's when it told me it can't find boot.b... so I checked /boot/ and it's *really* empty (took me a while to really believe that it's empty.. and I dunno if it got killed by WinXP)... so I ran "upgrade" from the Mandrake cd... And it still didn't work. then I ran "install" w/o formating the / directory... and it still works.. but I'm able to use the boot floppy to get into linux and able start X.. But right now, the only files in my /boot directory are kernel.h and message. And I still can't install lilo since boot.b is missing...
So there's no way to install the files for /boot? I'm using MDK 8.0... technically, if I didn't change anything, I could copy my boot files from my laptop (also MDK 8.0) to my desktop? Valerie Onur Kucuk wrote: > Hi Valerie, > > How could you boot, with the boot empty ? Or didnt you boot yet? > If you could boot, then most probably you have a partition containing > your boot data, but it is not mounted now. Type > > fdisk -l > > and compare it with /etc/fstab entries, especially with the line > containing /boot . Check if there is a line missing, a partition not > mounted etc. > > And also, if you dont want re-install your system, > > if you can give us the name "which version" you have, and if you did > not change much in /boot , a copy+paste from a friend would be fine I > guess. > > If it is MDK 8.1 I can send you my /boot/* > > > Onur Kucuk michael wrote: > Val: > My favourite disaster recovery technique is to insert cd1 > of 8.1 and choose 'expert' and 'upgrade'...that way all > your mail and stuff stays there Paul wrote: > In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 > > Hi Valerie, > > /boot is EMPTY?? > Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. > I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have a backup. /boot contains all > the kernels and such. > > But wait a few, perhaps another person knows something better. > > Paul
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