Yup. It is very very very important to create a rescue disk!! That way
if you mess up the partition and it no longer sees grub or LILO.... you
can boot with it, type lilo at the bash prompt and you are done. That
easy. Without the disk you have to go to a lot of trouble and know what
you are doing to get back into it.
Seth chandler wrote:
>
> if i just create a boot floppy during the install should the floppy work? I
> havn't yet tried that (yeah, pretty stupid i guess) anwyay, thanks
>
> seth
>
> >From: Lorne Shantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [Cooker] bug
> >Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 11:38:26 -0700
> >
> >at the bash prompt you should be able to command - lilo and it should
> >insert lilo. I just tried that and it worked. Now I need to re-install
> >Norton Anti Virus to see if that fixes it for me.
> >
> >Seth chandler wrote:
> > >
> > > how would i do that?
> > >
> > > >From: Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >Subject: Re: [Cooker] bug
> > > >Date: 28 May 2000 18:42:19 +0200
> > > >
> > > >"Seth chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I have a Gateway Solo 2500 with an 800x600 display panel and a
> >neomagic
> > > > > video card, a cdrom drive, and a 4 gig hd. Every time i have tried
> >to
> > > > > install mandrake 7.1, beta 1, 2 ,or 3, it give me a hard drive
> >geometry
> > > > > error at reboot. it says hd geom. I am running 7.0 on it right
> >now,
> > > >and it
> > > > > runs perfect, i just figured i should drop you guys a line. i have
> >no
> > > >idea
> > > > > how to fix this problem, i'm not even sure why it happens. Thanks
> > > >
> > > >cool you try asking for lilo instead of grub?
> > > >
> > >
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