On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> I mucked up my system by trying to reinstall XP on one of the
> partitions on my /dev/hda - of course, it hosed up my otherwise
> perfectly good, perfectly working lilo. In trying to get BACK to my
> beloved and stable RH, I made the /boot active via using FDISK (set
> active partition) and on booting to linux, got LIL (and that was it).
>
> I rebooted with the RH Installation CD 1, ran "linux rescue" then did
> the "chroot /mnt/sysimage" - then ran "lilo" again - in the hopes that
> it would put me back to where I was before I mucked up. No luck. I
> start to get the boot, but end up getting the error about "image="
> after it loads half-way. So it ain't fixed.
>
> I managed to do a "mkbootdisk" and make some modifications to it, but
> I'm still without lilo.
>
> I've been through the man pages over and over again, have tried heaps
> of different things to get it back, but am still stuck with the
> "image=" bit. I'm lost. Don't want to reinstall, don't want to
> upgrade, just want to get my lilo back to "normal".
>
> Any hints, tips, fixes, anything short of sacrificing a goat?
>
> TIA!
>
What do you get if you boot to Linux with your boot disk, and run:
lilo -v -v
This may give you more information about what lilo is having a problem
with. Did the partition number of your root partition change when
you installed XP?
Mikkel
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