Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install -- Thanks to All!
Thank you for your suggestion, JW Park, and to the suggestions of others . I tried
Park's suggestion, but that made it boot only to Linux, leaving no opportunity to boot
to Windoze. I tried others' suggestions, without any direct success. But it payed off
in the end.
I played around with fdisk, retagging the main ext2 partition (hda2) bootable, then
non-bootable, then re-tagging the Linux native partition (hda1) as bootable. The first
time I tagged the Linux native partition as bootable, I got a message back when I
rebooted that there was a partition error (and then the system froze). However, after
fooling around and trying it a second time, it worked.
I love "computer science", as they use to call it when I went to school.
Thanks to all.
Jeff Hill
JW Park wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:34:04 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >It seems like I remember reading somewhere once that the solution was to boot
> >using the Windows Rescue/Reboot disk and go to command prompt and do an "fdisk
> >/mbr" and then re-install lilo.
>
> You have to reinstall LILO but at different place. Look at your
> lilo.config and find the line that starts with "boot=". Change it to
> "boot=/dev/hda" You probably have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 or something
> like that. Then do lilo again.
>
> >But I've caused myself some extreme pain
> >mucking with the mbr on a guess. I've ran Linux servers for a couple of years
> >now, but setting up a dual-boot and making a desktop system is almost another
> >world.
>
> heh, I am having devil of time setting up a server. But I can set up
> quad-boot(english,korean,japanese win95/NT, and linux) machine blind
> folded.
>
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