On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hello
>
> I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake.
> I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to
> tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now,
> how can I do this if its possible?
If i understand you correctly then you have NOT deleted your old
partitions or your old linux.
Just start linux which ever one it may be and install LILO on a
floppy disk, thus giving you a choose of which one to boot.
cd /etc/
joe lilo.conf
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=200
vga = normal
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10-3
label=2.2.10-3
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10-2
label=2.2.10-2
root=/dev/hda6
read-only
Now you can see from the examples above what you have to do,
remember th above are examples, check and see just where your images
are located.
You could install lilo strait onto the MBR but you might have a
reason not to, and for experimental perpourses its better to do it to
floopy first just incase.
Place a clean floppy in /dev/fd0 and type lilo
If you have edited lilo.conf correctly from my example above then you
should be able to boot both ok.
> Thanks
> Scott
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Regards Richard
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