On Tuesday 10 February 2004 02:11, Marc Resnick wrote: > > Well I tried booting with the MDK cd 1. I booted from cdrom and > chose the upgrade option. As soon as I got to partitioning, I got > the error 'Could not mount hda5', and I could do nothing about it. > Please tell me I'm not going to have to reinstall Linux. An easy > solution would be much nicer. > If youi haven't already tried it, boot from CD1. When you get to the screen where you can select install or upgrade, don't choose either. I can't remember whether it's Esc or F1, but one of them will take you to a text screen where you can select rescue. There's an option there that will restore your lilo.
I'm guessing that your experiments with partitions have screwed up the naming system. If I'm wrong it will do no harm. Sorry I can't remember the exact names of things, but if you don't panic and take time to read the screens it should be quite clear which ones I mean. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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