Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 06:09 am, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to > include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and > re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the > same place, I'd expect your old

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the same place, I'd expect your old lilo.conf to still work. -- richard Booting into Wi

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 12 November 2004 05:10, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: [...] > I had to do the following: > > #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf1 /mnt > > Of course I had to be root to do it. Now the hard part is cleaning up > the Windows side! Oh well, at least Linux is again accessible! That should not have bee

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
(reply bottom-posted) On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi there! > > * Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041112 00:02]: > > I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out > > the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian > > GNU/

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi there! * Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041112 00:02]: > I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out > the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian > GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both > hard drive

LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both hard drives. I'm running woody and just need to rerun LILO to reinstate the