Re: [PLUG] Lilo Help needed and Win2K

[Jon Nelson <bigfish@enter.net>]

Dan,
At the LILO prompt for your boot floppy type:
                linux boot=/dev/hda3
That's assuming that everything is in the same partition.  If not you need 
to sub your boot partition for /dev/hda3.  When it boots you will get a lot 
of error messages, don't worry about them.  As root type:
                /sbin/lilo
and you should be good to go after a reboot.  If you want to make a boot 
floppy I believe it tells you how in the LILO man page or the HOWTO.

Jon

At 08:37 PM 4/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I tried setting up a dual boot laptop IBMST21 ad I messed up..
> I installed lilio into the MBR and rebooted the box and lilo came up jsut
> fine...and then I removed it from the MBR and then the box didn't boot up..
> So then I did and fdisk /MBR on the C: drive to restore the WIN MBR and was
> still not able to boot in any manner...just a dead screen..
> So my question is:
>
> I have a boot floppy from another box..how do I tell lilo on that floppy how
> to boot the kernel on the dead floppy..
> I tried a bunch of things at the lilo prompt...but no luck..
> The image on the dead laptop is on /dev/hda3
>
> what do I have to type at the lilo prompt in order to get this kernal to
> boot up??
>
>
>
> Thnaks!!!
>
> Dan
>
>
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