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? (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
