Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> * Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@hiwaay.net> [041112 00:02]:
> > I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out
> > the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian
> > GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both
> > hard drives.
> >
> > I'm running woody and just need to rerun LILO to reinstate the
> > menu. I subscribe to the digest but you'll reach me quicker if also
> > emailed to fairless@ieee.org.
>
> Boot your knoppix. Mount your / partition.
>
> IIRC knoppix mount's partiotions with the nodev flag. If it does,
> remount your / partition without the dev flag (e.g. umount /dev/hda3 ;
> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 should do the job).
> Now you can run "chroot /mnt/hda3" (or whereever you mountet your
> root partition, and now /sbin/lilo.
> Problem solved.
> Oh, you might want to check /etc/lilo.conf (after you run chroot), if
> there is a working other-entry for your Windows.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Alexander
>
>
>
>
I had to do the following:
#mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf1 /mnt
Of course I had to be root to do it. Now the hard part is cleaning up the
Windows side! Oh well, at least Linux is again accessible!
Thank you for your quick response!
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
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