Re: HELP, I screwed up my system
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 04:13:40AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
[lilo messed up]
> Can someone tell me how I can restore the old lilo/boot or
> do I have to do a complete re-install of hamm again ?
>
> NOTE: I only have the debian rescue floppy to boot from.
Use the rescue floppy. At the syslinux prompt, use
linux root=/dev/hda1
(assuming your regular Linux partition is the first partition on the first
IDE disk). Your system should come up regularly. Now edit the
/etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo.
HTH,
Ray
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