Dacia....very creative :-)
Alan
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
>
> I tried this and couldn't get it to work. I couldn't
> even get into my linux partition because my boot disk
> wouldn't work and the new one I made didn't work
> either. What I ended up doing was booting from the
> installation CD and choosing exactly the same
> installation path I had before. I chose Upgrade
> instead of install. I can now access linux, LILO is
> working again and bootmagic actually finds a bootable
> linux partition too. The only bummer is that my mouse
> wheel doesn't work now but that is relatively easy to
> cure.
>
> Not the right way to do it but definately a way ;-)
>
> Dacia
>
> --- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dacia....once you're booted with the rescue system
> > and mounted
> > your / directory you need to use the chroot
> > (something like
> > 'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot is the
> > temporary
> > mountpoint for your / directory) command to change
> > the current
> > system to using your root directory as / (wherever
> > you've
> > mounted it). Then reinstall lilo with a /sbin/lilo
> > command.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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> > they
> > > > are.
> > > >
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