On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 16:54, Vijay Raghavan wrote: > Hello, > > I had a dual boot system with redhat linux and winxp. Winxp was giving a > lot of problems. so decided to remove it and install win 2000. did it and > as usual, lilo was gone. > > I have faced such a problem earlier too but I always used to reinstalled > linux and I dont want to take the same old step. > > > The steps I took: > > 1) used knoppix, was able to mount the root, was able to edit lilo.conf > (used vi) but was unable to run lilo. whenever i ran lilo, it gave some > error saying 'there's some problem in lilo.conf at line number xx'. I > searched for some sample lilo.conf and there was no mistake.
try chrooting to the linux filesystem and then running lilo with appropriate lilo.conf file > > 2) used 2-3 floppy bootable linux distributions but was unseccussful. never worked for me either > 3) since i can't go into dos, i can't use loadlin. i used a dos bootable > floppy and tried loadlin > from there but to no avail. i dnt get it...works pretty fine all the time...i used to loose linux almost everyday > > 4) I even used the RHL 8.0 first CD to get into the rescue mode and try > from there. but it says that there aren't any linux partitions present in > the hard disk. ufff, there are i guess because explore2fs is able to read > the partitions. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
