Re: [PLUG] Blew away my MBR and lilo<<Help needed!

[zeek@sparklehouse.com]

Use a boot floppy or the install cdrom and do:

boot: boot vmlinuz /dev/hda4	# or something like that

or...

go into rescue mode, mount /dev/hda4 ; /mnt/myroot ; 
chroot /mnt/myroot 

This is just from memory so you'll have to sort out 
the specifics. 

Hope it helps. Oh, and hopefully this helps too:

This (should) happen(s) to everyone at least once.

-zeek

 
> Hello All
> 
> I have a triple boot disk and I jsut plastered my lilo.. How do I recreate it?
> Here are some details>
> Partition 1 /boot
> Partition 2 Win98
> Partition 3 Win2K
> Partition 4 /SUSE8
> 
> so up until one hour ago I would boot the system and up would pop lilo.
> I happened to have run SpeedDisk on my WIn98 partition and upon reboot I couldn't
> reboot into win98 after lilo.. I got something along the lines of invalid system.
> So being tired I boot a DOS floppy and did an FDISK /MBR  and of course when I
> rebooted again I got the missing operating system note..
> So I rebooted the floppy and did an sys c: and at least I can now see the Win98
> stuff..but with no lilo
> 
> So question is>
> How do I boot my SUSE8 partition and restore lilo as it was before this mess?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> Sincerely
> Dan Roberts
> 
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