On Friday 15 February 2002 23:14, Spyros Spyropoulos wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following problem. > > I recently got a second hard drive, to install my (Mandrake 8.0)linux. > Prior to that I had linux installed on a partition of my first hard drive. > > However, once the intsallation was complete, Lilo could not be > (re)intsalled for some reason. > > Now it is looking for the linux partition in the wrong place (on the > partition in was intalled before) when I try to boot (I can boot windows as > it is on the same partition it was before). > > Foolish enough, I did not create a boot disk when I intsalled linux, and > every try to create a boot disk via windows (you get this option when you > intert the mandrake installation cd) that would enable me to boot and edit > the lilo.conf file failed. Booting via CD does not seem to help either. > > Any ideas how I could fix this?
You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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