Re: [SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

2000-10-24 Thread Doug Stalker
Ken Yap wrote: > >or a way of installing a boot loader without > >mounting the partition that it will be running. > could boot a rescue floppy, make a tmproot in ramdisk, say > /tmp/foo, mount the boot partition under that as /tmp/foo/boot, create a > /tmp/foo/etc/lilo.conf (hope you remember t

Re: [SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

2000-10-23 Thread Ken Yap
>So what can I do? I need either a boot disk which will let me mount >reiserfs partitions, or a way of installing a boot loader without >mounting the partition that it will be running. Yup. >If it's any help, /boot is a 12 MB ext2 partition. The system itself is >Mandrake 7.1 with a few patc

[SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

2000-10-23 Thread Doug Stalker
I had to reinstall windows on my dual-boot system, and as expected windows overwrote the lilo boot loader. Easy to fix, I just put in my linux boot disk and boot it up - except teh disk has devoloped a whole bunch of bad sectors. Not a problem! I think. I'll just use a TOMRTBT boot disk to d