Re: No boot after reinstall
Hello Bob,
Thanks for the hint. You made my day.
I took my Potato discs, booted with rescue root=/dev/hda3 and got into Linux.
Then I ran install-mbr /dev/hda3 and it reinstalled the MBR.
Holding down the shift key now lets me choose which partion I want to boot
(choice between 1FA).
I haven't got the old situation back (with the new red LILO choice screen),
but I can get into my system, so I'm happy. I need to re-examine my
lilo.conf and maybe check some other options for install-mbr. We'll see.
Cheers,
Hans
At 04:35 PM 10/29/01 +0100, R. Alexander wrote:
>Did you try booting with potato's CD with the parpameter rescue
>root=/dev/hdyx ??
>I have a Linux system at the last 2GB of a 30GB IDE disk, which I believe is
>way after the 1024 cyl but the LILO level I use seems to be able to boot
>just fine ...
>Did you reissue a lilo -v against a valod lilo.conf ?
>Did you look at GRUB a LILO alternative of which I heard wonders ?
>Hope it can be useful. Bob
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hans Fong" <hansfong@yahoo.com>
>To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 3:42
>Subject: No boot after reinstall
>
>
>> I've had to reinstall Win98 on my notebook (hda1
>> 1800MB) which had Debin unstable (hda3 2500 MB). Lilo
>> was wiped of the MBR, but my attempt to reinstall it
>> with my Potato CDs failed (and I've done this before
>> and it worked then). It complained about being above
>> the 1024 cilinder. Might this be because the CDs are
>> Potato and the installed version is Sid?
>>
>
>
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