On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 15:45, martin brandt wrote: > Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > martin brandt wrote: > > > > > > >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 > > > >>>and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits > > > >>> > > > >>reinstalling > > > >> > > > >>>it in the usual manner > > > >>> > > > >>>What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and > > choose > > > >>>consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the > > > partition > > > >>>(cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and > > > >>>then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect > > entry > > > > > > >>>in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a > > > >>>seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first > > you > > > >>>have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor > > instruction, > > > >>>as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle > > > the > > > >>>newbie. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, > > > >>> > > > >>>mkdir /mnt/temp > > > >>>ls /mnt > > > >>>temp > > > >>>mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > > >>> > > > >>>punch up vi something like this, > > > >>> > > > >>>vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf > > > >>> > > > >>>and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi > > > >>> > > > >>>John > > > >>> > > > >>-- > > > >>linux counter #167806 > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in > > > /etc/ > > > >and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it > > called > > > > > > >something else? > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm, > > > Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not > > mounted > > > > > > You don't find /mnt/temp, > > > you create it in the rescue consule, like this, > > > > > > mkdir /mnt/temp > > > > > > then check to see that you did, > > > > > > ls /mnt/temp > > > > > > returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) > > > > > > then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, > > > > > > mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > > > > > where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed > > > the OS. > > > > > > then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf > > > and look at it, like this, > > > > > > cd (means change directory) > > > > > > cd /mnt/temp/etc/ > > > > > > that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, > > > and from there you can display the > > > file on screen with, > > > > > > cat /lilo.conf > > > > > > then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition > > > and report, we can take it from there. > > > > > > John > > > -- > > > John Richard Smith > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i > > found: > > other=/dev/hda3 > label="old_windows" > table=/dev/hda > > Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of > seems > to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems > > when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? > > (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?) >
Would fdisk /mbr from the prompt of a windows boot up disk work???
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