Hello everyone,
my problem is the following:
I have a laptop hp where I installed first windows xp home, then
created using partition magik a new partition (with the swap one) where
I put mandrake 9.0 on.
Everything worked well since I decided to reinstall windows... I didn't
pay attention and now I can't access to linux anymore because the lilo
is not prompted. 
I have the three partitions, still.
How can I restore lilo and access mandrake?

Someone on another forum told me to use knoppix, to boot as root and
then execute the following commands:

mkdir /mnt/linux
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/linux (hda2 is the linux to restore)
chroot /mnt/linux
lilo

the problem is that I get the following error when launching lilo:

"first sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature"

does anyone can help on this issue?

thank you very much,
Enrico.




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