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Started by Crazy_Vasey October 24, 2001 06:47 PM

3 comments, last by Crazy_Vasey 22 years, 8 months ago

Crazy_Vasey

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October 24, 2001 06:47 PM

OK, I had to reinstall windows 98 and it''s taken over the boot sector. Is there a way for me to get LILO back without a boot disc or has my lack of foresight got me into a hole I can''t get out of?

Strife

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October 24, 2001 08:28 PM

Well, do you have a bootdisk now? If so, you''ll need to use that to boot back into linux, and from there, run whatever setup tool came with your distro to reinstall LILO (actually, I''m not sure, but running the "lilo" command as root MIGHT do this... I''d just go with the setup tool just to be safe)

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Obelix

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October 25, 2001 06:41 AM

You should be able to do it without a bootdisk. Just boot from the linux CD and do not format any disks. Perhaps will some packages be reinstalled but your files is still there.

Crazy_Vasey

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October 25, 2001 07:36 AM

Thanks, I''ll try that I suppose I have backups if it goes wrong even if they are a bit old now.

russellman

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October 25, 2001 10:44 AM

I like loadin, it on the Linux CD. You press F8 Key at bootup.
and When the windows chouses apear chouse Prompt only.

I have a batch file called linuxstr.bat
cd\windows\apps\linux
autoboot

And in the directury windows\apps\linux the autoboot.bat --
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc5 ro

In my cass -- if interrested replay.

Gary Russell (ISSW)
ghrussel@swbell.net

Gary Russell (ISSW)ghrussel@swbell.net