Hi:
I'm not so sure if this will work. I was just asking my friend about
installing/uninstalling Lilo.
>From what I've learned to install type 'lilo -i' at the prompt and 'lilo -u'
to uninstall.
don't know though if you can do this w/ the Linux boot disk.
edison
>From: Dacia and AzureRose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux
>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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>
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