[olug] Getting LILO back

[Jay Woods]

I want to thank everybody for their help. Unfortunately nothing is working out. I have
been able to boot up with tomsrtbt - 1.7.101 and my stuff is still there. However:

    I haven't been able to boot up from the CD-ROM (for example, Linux Mandrake v7.02).
    I can boot up on the emergency boot disk with the command at LILO of linux
root=/dev/hdb6 BUT it always tries to boot to hda6 which isn't there.
    I have been able to set up a new lilo.conf file that has hdb6 instead of hda6 BUT
when I run lilo at the root command line, it refuses to write to the MBR saying
something about it isn't marked for it.

I'm ready to pay for somebody to come and fix it. ---Jay

Christopher Garrity wrote:

>         Boot up with the Install floppy or from CD-ROM, and at the boot prompt type:
>
>         linux single root=/dev/hdb* initrd=
>
>         Where the * == the number of your root partition. This'll get you to single
> user mode where you can rerun lilo. If you get kernel panic, don't panic
> yourself, you just gave root=/dev/hdb* the wrong number. Try again..
>
> Jay Woods wrote:
> >
> > I've had to move my old hard disk to slave and put in a new hard disk as
> > master. I was running LILO and a dual boot to Win95 and Mandrake 6.2.
> > Now I've got Win98SE on the new disk. Is there an easy path to get LILO
> > back and point to Linux on the slave disk? ---Jay
> >
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