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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Jonas" <bill@billjonas.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] lilo issues
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> > 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 see any need to reinstall if she can boot into Linux. Perhaps
But she can't boot into Linux with her current tools and config - she says
that it boots into Windows, and that her rescue disk just continually
re-boots.
"I pop in myboot disk made during installation, and lilo comes up and
promptly boots
right back into itself again and again. "
That's why I suggested either a reinstall - no chance of losing anything,
since nothing had been put on there - or using a different boot disk - so
she could boot into Linux, and fix her config.
> she installed LILO in the partition instead of in the MBR? If that's
> the case, there are a couple options:
>
> 1.) Go into fdisk and mark the Linux partition as bootable.
> 2.) Edit /etc/lilo.conf and install LILO in the MBR (as opposed to the
> partition). Change the 'boot=/dev/hdXY' line to 'boot=/dev/hdX'.
>
> > for the exact syntax - it's something like "lilo -c
/mnt/my-etc/lilo.conf").
> > Then reboot, and see what happens.
>
> Keep in mind that if you do this you'll need to edit
> /mnt/my-etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new (mounted) location(s) of the
> kernel image(s). There's also:
Yes, I said that on the line above - "edit your lilo.conf on that
partition".
>
> -r root-directory
> Before doing anything else, do a chroot to the
> indicated directory. Used for repairing a setup
> from a boot floppy.
>
> --
> Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
> "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
> be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
> this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
>
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