--- Vijay Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 2) used 2-3 floppy bootable linux distributions but > was unseccussful. > > 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. > > 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. > > > NOW WHAT SHOULD I DO, I NEED LINUX TO STAND UP AND > START RUNNING. > > > Just the day before I lost linux, i apt-get_ed it. > It took precious 3 > hours of mine. >
With Knoppix CD do it like this: - Boot off the Knoppix CD. - Open a terminal. You become root with the command "sudo su". You can also open the root terminal which is on the Knoppix menu. - mount the drive partition having Linux (mount /dev/hda?)(replace the ? with the appropriate drive letter) - change to the partition holding Linux on the harddisk. (cd /mnt/hda?) - chroot to the Linux partition (chroot /mnt/hda1) - Now you can edit the "/etc/lilo.conf" file if required. - Finally, shoot the command "/sbin/lilo". Reboot and you are done. The trick is to "chroot" to the Linux partition, else you are refering to the wrong "/etc/lilo.conf" and "/sbin/lilo" scripts. -- narsingh ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
