Enrico Curiotto wrote: > 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. > > Take a look at:
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/EmerGencies#Using_the_rescue_mode_of_the_Ins Use the re-install the boot loader menu option of the rescue mode. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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