> Mick wrote: > > Hi folks, > > A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of > course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI > and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access > the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and typing > 'rescue', I can then get to a prompt. After looking at an article > about basic Unix commands I used 'ls' to see my directories. Whoopee, > I can see then 'til I'm blue in the face. I swear I am going to take a > course in basic Linux commands after I get through this! > I did also try to reinstall the whole kit and kiboodle, but each time > I try, it gets as far as installing packages and then just quits, with > two minutes to go....! The activity lights on the cdrom drive and HD > just die. I've tried waiting for ages! Nothing! I tried using the > Plextor burner as a boot device and to load the OS from but with the > same result. > Here are some tech details that may help. > Any help will be gratefully appreciated, as I'm kinda' dead in the > water here. (Posting from the wifes machine here, sshhh...) > Mick > > AMD Athlon 1Ghz > 512 ram > Plextor CD Burner > 52X ATAPI CDROM > Floppy > NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 > LM 8.1
Well Mick, as far as I can see, you are almost back at point zero ? You have "windows" on the box ? - If I were in your place I'd start all over again : 1. Boot into "windows" (You have a rescue-floppy for that, eh ?) 2. When "windows" comes up, go to a MS-DOS prompt 3. Issue the command : FDISK /MBR 4. Issue the command :exit 5. Reboot (this time "windows" will reappear by itself, without assistance from lilo) 6. Again, go to a MS-DOS prompt and run FDISK 7. Be VERY careful now : delete every partition exept "Windows"-partitions (FAT, FAT32, NTFS etc.) 8. Re-install linux (do not update) and remember to create a "linux-boot-floppy". With your up-to-date hardware, a clean install of linux should be a matter of about 20 minutes ! Regards Kaj Haulrich
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