On Monday 01 October 2001 1:22 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> I screwed up my lilo.conf file big time and ran /sbin/lilo.  Now I
> cannot boot that partition.  However, I can access it from another
> partition.  Is there a way that I can rerun /sbin/lilo from one
> partition yet have it write the correct map file and boot sector to the
> other partition?  I think this is possible from reading the LILO Users
> Guide but I'd hate to blow up the unaffected partition also.  I need a
> LILO expert on this one  :- (
>
> Thanks very much in advance!

lilo has an -r  option for 'relative'  where you can run lilo against another 
partition and system.

As always, you should   'man  lilo'  



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