On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:50 am, Matthew Ryan Larson asked of the Jedi 
Counsel:
> A re-installation of windows ate my boot-loader, and I can't get back into
> linux.  I figured the install CD's would fix this.  So, I went through the
> RH 8 wizard, picked the option to add features to my current installation,
> picked to re-install my boot loader, followed the options, but got an error
> stating something to the effect of "No kernal packages were installed on
> your computer, your boot loader will not be modified" and was told that the
> installation was complete.
>
> Thinking that re-installing a kernal would fix this, I went back through
> the installation wizard, picked the option to customize packages to be
> installed, picked a kernal to install in addition to re-installing the
> boot-loader, and got the same error message as above.
>
> What should I do?

Did you make a boot disk so you can get back into Red Hat booting from the 
floopy?  I am not certain with RH 8, but Mandrake has a way to reintall the 
bootloader if you boot up into Mandrake and use drakconf.  I would assume RH 
8 would have something similar once you have booted.

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Jacob Albretsen
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