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Michael Leone wrote:
>
> > I recently attempted a switch from RH7.0 to Slackware 7.0 for numerous
> > reasons, but the primary reason one was :why not? My adventures in Linux
> > have been for pure self edification and learning more is what it is all
> > about right? There is a point.
>
> Yep; painful learning is what it's all about ... <G>
>
> > I installed slackware from the bare.i image from floppy, as my BIOS is
> > so old it won't boot from cdroms, and i can't find an update, blah,
> > blah, blah. So the install is going along nicely, I do my usual
> > partitions, have linux as my default os, and load lilo to the mbr.
> > Reboot, and up pops windows. S***. So, ever the boy scout, I pop in my
> > boot disk made during installation, and lilo comes up and promptly boots
> > right back into itself again and again. WTF do I do now? Reinstall?
>
> Well, if there's nothing in any of those partitions you want to save, why
> not reinstall? Perhaps you missed a step.
I don't -think- I did, but I suppose anything's possible. <G> The
reason I would prefer not to reinstall is that I am stubborn. I want to
fix it. I was the kid who broke things just so my dad would show me how
to fix them. My toaster oven ii now RIP due to this stubbornness. My
kids and I learned quite a bit about the inner workings of a toaster
oven though.
> If there is anything you want on there, perhaps a different rescue disk (see
> Tom's Root/Boot Diskette, for a start - http://www.toms.net/rb/, altho
> http://www.bootdisk.com has a whole lot of downloadable boot disk images,
> for many OSes) will let you mount your partition that has your /etc; edit
> your lilo.conf on that partition; and then re-run lilo, making sure to tell
> lilo to get it's conf file from the newly mounted directory (see "man lilo"
> for the exact syntax - it's something like "lilo -c /mnt/my-etc/lilo.conf").
> Then reboot, and see what happens.
I will try to the above then maybe go buy a new toaster oven. Thanks.
kristin
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