Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all.
I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to
read/write my linux file system but the system has not
loaded linux from my hard drive in that case. It is a
live linux file system loaded from the rescue cdrom to
RAM. A ramdisk.
Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 so I
need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do
that. I can't find any descriptions of how to do that
anywhere and I don't want to re-install because this
seems like a completely recoverable situation.
Dacia
--- Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once you get your Linux file system up, as root,
> type "lilo".
>
> > Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening.
> I
> > had been using LILO to choose OS. Windows is on
> > primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave
> (hdb).
> > LILO was set to use hda as the bootable
> partition.
> > Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk
> and
> > partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux
> partition
> > either. I made the classic newbie move here.
> >
> > I have full read write access to my linux file
> system
> > thanks to a rescue CDrom. I just need to know
> which
> > files to change so that I can get LILO going
> again.
> > Does anyone know what those would be? I'm at a
> loss.
> >
> > I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> > bootable which didn't work. I also tried hdb1
> which
> > is my /boot partition. No go. hdb5 is linux
> swap,
> > hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home. It seems that the
> > windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of
> hdb
> > because partition magic reports a small extended
> dos
> > partition on that drive where there formerly were
> > none.
> >
> >
> > Its 2:30 am and thats what I know. Thanks for any
> > help folks.
> >
> >
> > Dacia
> >
> >
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