[NCLUG] Lilo

[Daniel Miles]

Yes
I ran into exactly this problem. If you have the install CD, there's 
usually a rescue mode on that. If you don't have the install discs, I 
*believe* that suse offers a "rescue floppy" image via ftp. I'm not sure 
so don't kill me if I'm wrong. Does anybody know where you can get a 
Linux rescue system?

You need to know what drive and partition your Lin install is on, then 
you mount it from the rescue program (a really simple linux that boots 
totally off the CD). Mine is on hdb5 so my commands look like this:

mkdir linuxInstall #makes a directory to mount my lin install to
mount -t ext2 hdb5 linuxInstall #mounts the lin install as an ext2 
filesystem at hdb5 to
				      #the directory linuxInstall, meaning that linuxInstall is
				      #now the root directory for your linux system instead of /
				      #which is your root directory for the rescue system.

from there, you'll run a program called chroot which runs something on a 
root filesystem that you specify.

chroot linuxInstall lilo # runs the command lilo with linuxInstall as the 
root filesystem.

That should have you on a dual boot right as rain with your origional 
lilo configuration. Of course if you need to change your lilo 
configuration, it would be in /linuxInstall/etc/lilo.conf



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 9/28/01, 8:16:05 AM, Henc Bouwmeester <hencbouwmeester at yahoo.com> wrote 
regarding [NCLUG] Lilo:


> I had a dual boot computer using LILO which could boot
> into SuSE 7.1 and also MS Win98.  However, my
> brother-in-law decided to reinstall Win98 and
> inadvertently erased LILO from the mbr.
> Unfortunately, he also didn't realize that he used the
> same floppy to make a Win98 start-up disk as I had
> used as a boot disk for the dual boot in case anything
> happened to the mbr.  So, now I can no longer access
> my SuSE system.  Is there any way to reinstall LILO on
> the mbr and allowing me to dual boot again?

> Thanks for your help,
> Henc

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