And when you're done with that, look into mkbootdisk so if you do it
again, you can boot to your Linux partition and rerun LILO to put it
back into your MBR (dunno about GRUB).
Eric MC D wrote:
>
> Do an UPGRADE from your CD.
> Select any unimprtant package to install and at the end say 'yes' to
> install lilo.
> It worked for me.
> Eric MC
>
> On Monday 19 March 2001 22:47, you wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | My name is Avdi, and I'm an idiot.
> |
> | Specifically, I installed Win98 on a partition I'd cleared for it on my
> | Mandrake 7.2 system, *without* checking to make sure my emergency linux
> | boot disk actually worked. Naturally, Win98 overwrote my MBR, and now
> | I'm unable to boot linux. I can boot the Mandrake install CD, but I
> | can't find a way to easily reinstall LILO or GRUB from it. Originally, I
> | had a trouble with the lilo on the CD giving my "Unsupported device"
> | errors; after I rebooted and tried again for some reason the RAM disk
> | was read-only, where it had been writeable the first time I booted from
> | the CD. Too wierd... anyway, I'm able to mount my linux partition from
> | the CD boot, but what do I do from there? I can't install LILO from the
> | old partiion because LILO expects various files (like /boot/boot.b) to
> | be in specific places in the filesystem; and the ramdisk is read-only. I
> | can't reinstall GRUB, mainly because I can't figure out it's internal
> | documentation and I can't find any external docs.
> |
> | All I want is to get a super-basic LILO or GRUB setup installed into my
> | MBR, enough so I can boot linux from /dev/hda1 (which is a reiserfs
> | partition, BTW) and reinstall my old GRUB setup using mandrake tools.
> | What's the simplest, easiest way to do this? Thanks,
> |
> | -Avdi
>
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