From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:55:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:54:51 -0500 Received: from site3.talontech.com ([208.179.68.88]:16209 "EHLO site3.talontech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:54:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6D6290.6D21B532@talontech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:53:04 -0800 From: Ben Ford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark I Manning IV CC: root@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) In-Reply-To: <3A6D6A9C.98237DE4@purplecoder.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark I Manning IV wrote: > > > > > > > I think that your linux's partition has not been overwritten, but only the MBR > > > > of your disk, so you probably just need to reinstall lilo. Insert your > > > > installation bootdisk into your pc, then skip all the setup stuff, but the > > > > choose of the partition where you want to install and the source from where > > > > you want to install, then select just the lilo configuration (bootconfiguration > > > > I mean), complete that step and reboot your machine, lilo will'be there again. > > Oopts I did this last week (fdisk /mbr doesnt do lilo any good :P) > > Insert Debian boot cd, boot to install, press Alt f2 Create mountpoint, > Mount /dev/hda1, CD to that directory chroot to it, cd into /root and > ./.profile (prolly not needed but can be useful sometimes) run lilo. > All fixed (except by the time i rebooted my motherboard had commited > suicide on me for being so stupid. Im about to go collect the > replacement right now :) Holy cow. Try this. 1. Boot from Slackware CD 2. At boot prompt enter: vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 (replace with correct device of course) 3. Boot. 4. Run lilo. 5. Reboot if you want to. -b - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/