Oh yes I did experience that often. When you use Partition Magic to resize a
linux partition (or move it), it looks like LILO get broken in the process.
To restore LILO, simply boot with your debian cd, choosing the normal
kernel. When you are in the installation, select a free virtual console
and press enter, it will activate it. You must now mount your main linux
partition with the regular command:
mount /dev/___ /mnt
(you replace the ___ with your config)
then you simply enter:
chroot /mnt
then you type
lilo
tada! Lilo is back into business. Not that hard, wasn't it?
Hope this helps!
Coronya
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, hanasaki wrote:
Anyone have experience with moving / resizing / del partitions and Linux
failing to boot? how did you fix it?
Ken Weingold wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so
far is:
1. installed dos
2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine
since it doesn't find dos.
3. installed linux.
4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine.
5. if i now change xenix back to fat16 i cannot boot either dos or
windows.
what i require is a way, in lilo.conf for example, for hiding the dos
partition when windows loads and hiding the windows partition when dos
loads. how is this possible? could you send a sample lilo.conf?
dos is on hda1, win on hda2, linux on hda3 and swap is hda5 (extended.
saqib
I would highly recommend System Commander. It is a boot manager that
will deal with all this seamlessly. You can even have it hide
partitions, so you can install Windows with DOS already there. Right
now I have running on my system: DOS 6.22, Win95 OSR2, Windows 2000,
and Linux. All running just fine.
-Ken
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