Walt Mankowski on Sun, 21 May 2000 23:25:17 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] lilo


On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:13:49PM -0400, Steven J Pulito wrote:
> I had a windows partition and a linux partion and used lilo to dual boot.
> 
> When I formatted the first partition and reinstalled windows it wiped the
> MBR and lilo.  However the linux partion is still there.  How do I
> reinstall lilo in the MBR?

The easiest way is to boot into your Linux partition from a floppy.
(You did keep a boot floppy around, right?  :-) Then you can reinstall
lilo by just running the "lilo" command.

Walt

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