Re: Save me: LILO!

[Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:

> Call me stupid.

Nah, i've done some pretty bad stuff in the past too ;)B

> I re-installed Win95 on /dev/hda1, of course forgetting that this
> would alter the MBR. LILO won't react to any action of Shift, Ctrl or
> Alt after the boot beep now, so my Linux system on /dev/hda3 can not
> be booted. What do I do to re-install LILO? (Sorry to say I can't find
> my Linux boot disk in the mess. I've just moved, so that is an excuse
> :-)

Beg, borrow, or steal a boot disk. Once you've booted, all you need is to
re-run lilo (you may need the -r option, man lilo for more)

At worst, download the Debian installation disk image. You don't have to
reinstall, just choose "Mount an existing root partition", "Activate an
existing swap partition", and "Make bootable" from the menu and things
_should_ work.