Re: [newbie] lilo probs
Did you make a floppy boot disk when you installed Linux on the box? If so, boot with that, then log in as root, type lilo Enter and Bob's your uncle. If you don't have a boot disk... someone else will need to help here. Miark - Original Message - From: mike.roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: [newbie] lilo probs OK Not strictly a newbie but I have got a clue on this one. Theres a box with 10gig windoze98 and 10gig spare I installed linux mandrake 8 on the box for a collegue and took the day off When I came back hed reinstalled windows (prat!) and overwritten lilo so he cant boot into linux. Not a problem I can just reinstall linux... But this wasts shed loads of work hes already done on the OS nad code hes writting. How can I just reinstall Lilo? I used the default FS option! Any help would be very well recieved Mike
Re: [newbie] LILO probs
try a boot menu program called xoslfat, very neat appearance, freeware cant remember where i found it but possibly Tucows - Original Message - From: "David Schur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO probs Hey, sorry for not replying quicker. I am running into similar type errors with my mbr, and i have had 0 luck with lilo, so i just use a boot disk for now. untill i figure something out, as for getting windows back, just use a windows book disk, restart your computer insert it before the beep, and just get to a dos prompt under your A:\ drive and type fdisk /mbr this should remove lilo from your boot record and windows should load fine from now on, i just suggest you make a few copies of your boot disk until you figure out how to make things work right... Dave Paul Marriott wrote: Hi there the story so far goes like this, Box2: One newish HP pavilion PC with windows gets a magazine cover CD version of Corel Linux installed.(which on first and subsequent boots hangs whilst booting). Windows could still be booted normally at that point, so then the Corel directory installed in the Windows C: directory is deleted .and next a CD installation of Mandrake 7.0 is performed. OK ,At this point DiskDrake has done its work and hacked the windows partition to shreds..oops! never mind. OK methinks, but just for a while at least Im going to need Windows so I'll restore from the HP restore CD. That done windows doesnt boot. By exploring through linux the DOS partition clearly has the full and correct Windows98 installation. The problem is that on booting the LILO hangs right at the bit where it starts..."LILO" etcbut it only gets as far as the "LI" and then hangs. Linux Mdk boots up just fine with the boot diskette., so i tried reconfiguring lilo and save to the MBR with klilo AND also Linuxconf to no avail. I got various error messages like "syntax error near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf added windows*ERROR: lilo died" and the prob continues... So, what can I do to remedy this?.. a) what do I do to get use of windows back? and how do I then configure lilo right. Thanks for your patience people. Paul
Re: [newbie] LILO probs
Hey, sorry for not replying quicker. I am running into similar type errors with my mbr, and i have had 0 luck with lilo, so i just use a boot disk for now. untill i figure something out, as for getting windows back, just use a windows book disk, restart your computer insert it before the beep, and just get to a dos prompt under your A:\ drive and type fdisk /mbr this should remove lilo from your boot record and windows should load fine from now on, i just suggest you make a few copies of your boot disk until you figure out how to make things work right... Dave Paul Marriott wrote: Hi there the story so far goes like this, Box2: One newish HP pavilion PC with windows gets a magazine cover CD version of Corel Linux installed.(which on first and subsequent boots hangs whilst booting). Windows could still be booted normally at that point, so then the Corel directory installed in the Windows C: directory is deleted .and next a CD installation of Mandrake 7.0 is performed. OK ,At this point DiskDrake has done its work and hacked the windows partition to shreds..oops! never mind. OK methinks, but just for a while at least Im going to need Windows so I'll restore from the HP restore CD. That done windows doesnt boot. By exploring through linux the DOS partition clearly has the full and correct Windows98 installation. The problem is that on booting the LILO hangs right at the bit where it starts..."LILO" etcbut it only gets as far as the "LI" and then hangs. Linux Mdk boots up just fine with the boot diskette., so i tried reconfiguring lilo and save to the MBR with klilo AND also Linuxconf to no avail. I got various error messages like "syntax error near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf added windows*ERROR: lilo died" and the prob continues... So, what can I do to remedy this?.. a) what do I do to get use of windows back? and how do I then configure lilo right. Thanks for your patience people. Paul
