Hello,
I have a system dual booting with Win98 and PCQLinux using LILO.
recently while repairing a win 98 error, my MBR got over written and
I had to do a "sys c:" to boot into windows. Unfortunately, I did'nt
have a boot floppy for linux (I had asked that question about how to
create a boot disk in linux some time earlier). But I did have
knoppix CD(a live distribution). So I booted into knoppix in command
line mode by giving the command as so:
knoppix 2
Now my original linux root partition is in /dev/hda7 and the boot
partition is in /dev/hda6. I figured it out using command as so:
# fdisk -l
Now I mounted /dev/hda7 in /mnt/hda7 and /dev/hda6 in /mnt/hda6
successfully by using the command as so:
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6
Next I did a chroot as so:
# chroot /mnt/hda7
Next i executed the lilo command.
# lilo
Now it showed an error as follows:
Fatal error: no path /boot/boot.b found
My question is where did i go wrong? I checked the /etc/lilo.conf file
which has a line as follows:
install=/boot/boot.b
By the way I did an ls in /boot (which is actually /mnt/hda7/boot) and I
found it empty. Then I got an idea.... I created a sym link of the files
in /mnt/hda6 (which is actually my original boot partition) into the
/mnt/hda7/boot directory as so:
# ln -s /mnt/hda6 /mnt/hda7/boot/.
Then when i did an ls, i did find the /boot/boot.b file in the boot
directory. But again when I executed lilo, I got the same error..... :(
Why is it so? Did i miss something? All I want is to get the lilo menu
back so I can boot normally into linux. All help will be appreciated :)
thanks in advance
ravi
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