Re: Need help with MBR.
On Sat June 17 2006 02:41 pm, Zach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a dual boot system (Debian "testing" with 2.4.27 kernel
> and Windows 98 SE) and I was using LILO to give me a boot menu. Well
> recently I had to reinstall Windows 98 and it installed it's loader
> into the MBR so my Linux boot block in the MBR was wiped out and now
> LILO menu doesn't come up - it just boots directly into the Windows 98
> menu.
>
> In the past when I was running 2.2.20-idepci kernel I was able to get
> back into my Debian system using the Debian Install Disk 1 and at the
> boot prompt typing : "rescue root=/dev/hda2" (Windows 98 partition is
> /dev/hda1), however it seems this no longer works since I upgraded to
> the 2.4.27 kernel. It complains about "kernel is too old" or something
> to that effect. I used a Morphix (Debian based live CD distro) disc
> and was able to mount /dev/hda2 but it won't let me run lilo (there is
> no LILO installed with Morphix), I need a way to boot into my Debian
> system and run LILO so it reads my /etc/lilo.conf and writes a boot
> block into the BIOS' MBR (master boot record). Can someone please tell
> me explicitly how to do this???
>
> Also can someone tell me how to make a boot floppy disk (3.5") once I
> get my system working again so that if this happens again I can use
> that to get back into Debian.
Something similar happened to me once too. In my case I booted from an ubuntu
live CD and chrooted and ran update-grub to put grub back in the mbr. I'm not
shure of lilo but I think you'll need to do something similar.
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