can't you just boot from the CD, when it comes up, type rescue once that is done, type chroot /mnt and you have simulated your system..
then you should just be able to type lilo (or edit /etc/lilo.conf and then type lilo) to update your lilo and write it to your mbr.. has worked for me in the past, but its not that easy if you are running other then 8.1 rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo? > Mick wrote: > > Hi folks, > > A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of > course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI > and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access > the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and typing > 'rescue', I can then get to a prompt. After looking at an article > about basic Unix commands I used 'ls' to see my directories. Whoopee, > I can see then 'til I'm blue in the face. I swear I am going to take a > course in basic Linux commands after I get through this! > I did also try to reinstall the whole kit and kiboodle, but each time > I try, it gets as far as installing packages and then just quits, with > two minutes to go....! The activity lights on the cdrom drive and HD > just die. I've tried waiting for ages! Nothing! I tried using the > Plextor burner as a boot device and to load the OS from but with the > same result. > Here are some tech details that may help. > Any help will be gratefully appreciated, as I'm kinda' dead in the > water here. (Posting from the wifes machine here, sshhh...) > Mick > > AMD Athlon 1Ghz > 512 ram > Plextor CD Burner > 52X ATAPI CDROM > Floppy > NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 > LM 8.1 Well Mick, as far as I can see, you are almost back at point zero ? You have "windows" on the box ? - If I were in your place I'd start all over again : 1. Boot into "windows" (You have a rescue-floppy for that, eh ?) 2. When "windows" comes up, go to a MS-DOS prompt 3. Issue the command : FDISK /MBR 4. Issue the command :exit 5. Reboot (this time "windows" will reappear by itself, without assistance from lilo) 6. Again, go to a MS-DOS prompt and run FDISK 7. Be VERY careful now : delete every partition exept "Windows"-partitions (FAT, FAT32, NTFS etc.) 8. Re-install linux (do not update) and remember to create a "linux-boot-floppy". With your up-to-date hardware, a clean install of linux should be a matter of about 20 minutes ! Regards Kaj Haulrich
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