I'm sorry in my previous post I mistakenly said to type in "startx" I meant
to say "/sbin/lilo" then type in "reboot." See if that does anything for
you.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] losing lilo
> From: Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
> > to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
> > have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
>
> ...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a
> bit trickier. If you've got the bash prompt from the rescue disk, though,
> you should be able to run mkbootdisk <your kernel version number> to make
> one. Then, when it's booted from that, run /sbin/lilo.
>
> I'm not sure what the rescue disk does with your existing hard drives.
> If you know where your original root directory was mounted (say, in /mnt),
> you can run (e.g.) /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
>
>
