What you can do is to put in your cd1 and reinstall the lilo.rpm with the --force command rpm -Uvh --force lilo-21.7.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (or whatever version you are using) This will install /boot/boot.b /boot/chain.b etc into the boot directory. You may also need to install the kernel again if there is no vmliunuz or initrd.img in the boot directory. On Friday 19 October 2001 03:54 pm, you wrote: > 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 > >
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