Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 16:57, Tonton wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? This one comes up often... so I've copied this from a previous post: You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 16:57, Tonton wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? This one comes up often... so I've copied this from a previous post: You can boot with the first Mandrake cd then at the prompt type: F1 rescue chroot /mnt Now you can check/edit the entries in /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo and reboot. HTH Jeez, I just realised my error in the above. Your system will be simulated in the /mnt directory so lilo.conf will be in /mnt/etc/. IOW check/edit the entries in /mnt/etc/lilo.conf. I apologise for the oversight. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where's my LILO?
My hard disk is partition into four, here it as follows: C, D, Linux Ext2, and Linux swap space. In my drive C, Windows 98SE is installed, in my drive D, Windows NT installed and Linux Ext2 Linux Mandrake 8.0 is installed. In my past days, after I installed Linux, I have always encounter difficulty in loading windows like it didn't load my windows or windows98 asked me to go in safe mode, this happens when I use Linux then transfer back to windows and vice versa, yesterday (Feb 21,2002), I'm using Windows 98. Whenever I'm online, I always keep updating my norton anti-virus, after downloading the virus definition in my norton anti-virus, we know that everytime it finished download the update, it always asking to reboot your system, so I did reboot my system. Here's the disastrous happen in my computer, I really don't what happen because everyday I always update my anti-virus but I think I'm not lucky yesterday because when I restart my computer, it didn't reload my windows! , so I press the restart button but it didn't work, I think I did this 5 times, but its not working. I re-install my windows98 but it didn't finished re-installing coz when windows update the configuration settings, it hanged, I press again the restart button, again, its not working. I'm get irritated so I decide to format drive C, I install windows98, and now its OK. My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
if you installed win9x after formatting c: then that explains why lilo is gone, it was overwritten by the win install, you will need the boot disk you made when you installed linux boot with that and run 'lilo' as root, failing that you could 'reinstall' linux but do an 'upgrade' choose no packages and let lilo get reinstalled for you bascule On Saturday 23 February 2002 3:57 am, you wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? -- When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
Tonton wrote: My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? Tonton, Just wanted to write to thank you for editing your post -- it's much easier to read now! (In the future, just breaking large paragraphs into smaller paragraphs would help, and maybe label the not completely relevant paragraphs with something like Background: . I don't know the exact details of how to solve your problem, but I think you want to do something like this (hopefully someone else will correct me if this is misleading): * Use your boot floppy (or rescue disk) to boot into Linux * Run lilo I've never done this, but I've seen the instructions on the list, this is the best I can remember. I'm uncertain as to whether you have to run a specific copy of lilo -- if no one gives you better advice I think I'd run lilo in *my* /boot/lilo. If you start Linux from a rescue disk, I think you will have to mount your filesystem somewhere. If you start Linux from your boot floppy, your filesystem should be the one you're running from, so just running /boot/lilo is what I would try. Since I can't be more positive, you may want to wait for another response or search the archives. Good luck! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's my LILO? (edited)
crude method of booting linux. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME-4.html My question is, after I format drive C, my LILO didn't show up anymore, what should I do? How do I return my LILO? How do I get-in back to Linux? Is there any solution to my problem? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
