Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
If you happened to buy the last issue of Maximum Linux magazine, the issue that had the Mandrake and Stormix CDs, make the "install" floppy from the Stormix disc. Boot this floppy and tell it where the Mandrake root partition is on your hard drive (the partition that you want to boot from); it will then boot that particular Linux. I can boot Caldera (on hdc1), Stormix (on hdc2), or Mandrake (on hda6) [but I normallly use my Mandrake floppy to boot Mandrake]. I have these other installs specifically so that I have something that I can play with, screw up and reinstall without messing with Mandrake. Go can also go to http://www.toms.net/rb and download a DOS copy of Tom's root-boot. This will allow you, through MS DOS, to create a self-booting Linux floppy. The intended use is to allow you to log to your own damaged file system or do other serious system repair, but from what I've read on Tom's documentation you should be able to log to Mandrake and run LILO to restore dual booting on your system. -Gary-
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
On 30 Jun 00, at 9:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux floppy. The intended use is to allow you to log to your own damaged file system or do other serious system repair, but from what I've read on Tom's documentation you should be able to log to Mandrake and run LILO to restore dual booting on your system. I have'nt followed this thread, but here's my 2 bits.. If u're intention is to restore dual boot with LILO because your boot floppy is damaged, there are much easier options: 1. Boot off your install CD and at the boot prompt, type rescue. Then mount the necesary partitions and make appropriate changes to /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo -v. 2. Get loadlin for DOS, make a batch file and bot into Linux. Follow same instr. as above. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [[newbie] Lilo MBR]
"PatMc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Thank you Pat === Use your boot floppy to get into linux and then, as root, run /sbin/lilo from a command line. You should get a report back that lilo.conf has added win or dos. Reboot w/o floppy and this time you should come to the lilo prompt. If you hit the tab key you should see both sytems available for booting (linux will probably be the default system). HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
If you have a Linux boot disk you could also boot from it, mount your Linux partition(s), edit your /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo to fix the MBR. This way you don't have to worry about running update changing anything you have already go configed under Linux. Rick Murphy wrote: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in Just slip your mandrake cd back in and boot your cd. Choose update in mandrake this will let you reinstall lilo. No problems. good luck Rick -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Thank you Pat Boot from the floppy you made (you did make one, right?) as root, type '/sbin/lilo' and that will re-write lilo to the MBR -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Boot from the boot-floppy, log in as ROOT and then run LILO again. Paul -- Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal. -Steve Rubenstein )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Thank you Pat Depending on your arrangement, you can just add the win98 config to your lilo.conf file and then run 'lilo' from the command line. Lilo should look something like this: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=Linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/hda1 label=Win98 table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" read-only Of course, your situation may differ, but that's about it. The part about 'append= " hdd=ide-scsi"' is because I'm using the reiser filesystem instead of ext2. Make sure to run 'lilo' after you make any changes so that lilo will reinstall to the mbr. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
