Okay, suppose I have a dual boot machine, something like this:
hda1 - small, vendor proprietary partition
hda2 - windows 98
hda3 - linux swap
hda4 - linux (reiserfs)
And everything's working smoothly. Lilo was installed using MBR.
Someone, NOT SAYING WHO, does a fdisk /mbr from Windows, and now the
computer boots only to windows, never see the Lilo screen.

Is there a quick way to restore Lilo using the installation CD without
re-installing?

Nick.

On 2005-11-19, Terrance N. Phillip <mediocre_person@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, suppose I have a dual boot machine, something like this:
> hda1 - small, vendor proprietary partition
> hda2 - windows 98
> hda3 - linux swap
> hda4 - linux (reiserfs)
> And everything's working smoothly. Lilo was installed using MBR.
> Someone, NOT SAYING WHO, does a fdisk /mbr from Windows, and now the
> computer boots only to windows, never see the Lilo screen.
>
> Is there a quick way to restore Lilo using the installation CD without
> re-installing?
>
> Nick.

Maybe liloconfig is what your looking for.....

ken

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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:48:50 -0600, Terrance N. Phillip
<mediocre_person@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, suppose I have a dual boot machine, something like this:
> hda1 - small, vendor proprietary partition
> hda2 - windows 98
> hda3 - linux swap
> hda4 - linux (reiserfs)
> And everything's working smoothly. Lilo was installed using MBR.
> Someone, NOT SAYING WHO, does a fdisk /mbr from Windows, and now the
> computer boots only to windows, never see the Lilo screen.
>
> Is there a quick way to restore Lilo using the installation CD without
> re-installing?

Start machine with Slackware installation disk. At the boot prompt are
instructions to do exactly what you want (boot to linux). You'll need
to specify booting to /dev/hda4 rather than whatever instructions say
(/dev/hda1, from memory).

When you're up & running, fix /etc/lilo.conf (if necessary), then run lilo


chris


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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:48:50 -0600, Terrance N. Phillip wrote:

> Okay, suppose I have a dual boot machine, something like this:
> hda1 - small, vendor proprietary partition
> hda2 - windows 98
> hda3 - linux swap
> hda4 - linux (reiserfs)
> And everything's working smoothly. Lilo was installed using MBR.
> Someone, NOT SAYING WHO, does a fdisk /mbr from Windows, and now the
> computer boots only to windows, never see the Lilo screen.
>
> Is there a quick way to restore Lilo using the installation CD without
> re-installing?
>
> Nick.

Chris gives you the proper outline. I'd also suggest, at some time, that
it would be good to move your swap and linux partitions to hda5 and hda6 -
the way it is, you can't make any more partitions, since all your primary
partitions are already used. This is not a major concern if all the
available space is used and you never want to install anything else, but
it would not hurt in any event.

Chris Willing wrote:

> Start machine with Slackware installation disk. At the boot prompt are
> instructions to do exactly what you want (boot to linux). You'll need
> to specify booting to /dev/hda4 rather than whatever instructions say
> (/dev/hda1, from memory).
>
> When you're up & running, fix /etc/lilo.conf (if necessary), then run lilo

it's even easier AFAIR. Boot the Slackware CD, mount your Linux drive to
wherever you want (let's say /mnt)
# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
# lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

This should work.

Greetings,

Gerhard

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Gerhard Wallraf wrote:
> Chris Willing wrote:
>
>
>>Start machine with Slackware installation disk. At the boot prompt are
>>instructions to do exactly what you want (boot to linux). You'll need
>>to specify booting to /dev/hda4 rather than whatever instructions say
>>(/dev/hda1, from memory).
>>
>>When you're up & running, fix /etc/lilo.conf (if necessary), then run lilo
>
>
> it's even easier AFAIR. Boot the Slackware CD, mount your Linux drive to
> wherever you want (let's say /mnt)
> # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt

mkdir /mnt/part4
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/part4

because it is better not to shadow what are in /mnt

> # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

lilo -r /mnt/part4

The -C option won't work because the files are refered as absolute file
if the partition is mounted on /. For example if your kernel is
/boot/vmlinuz; in our configuration it becomes /mnt/part4/boot/vmlinuz.

Olive

olive wrote:
> Gerhard Wallraf wrote:
>
>> Chris Willing wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Start machine with Slackware installation disk. At the boot prompt are
>>> instructions to do exactly what you want (boot to linux). You'll need
>>> to specify booting to /dev/hda4 rather than whatever instructions say
>>> (/dev/hda1, from memory).
>>>
>>> When you're up & running, fix /etc/lilo.conf (if necessary), then run
>>> lilo
>>
>>
>>
>> it's even easier AFAIR. Boot the Slackware CD, mount your Linux drive to
>> wherever you want (let's say /mnt)
>> # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
>
>
> mkdir /mnt/part4
> mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/part4
>
> because it is better not to shadow what are in /mnt
>
>> # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>
>
> lilo -r /mnt/part4
Ah... this looks like what I need. I will try it Monday morning. Thanks
all. FWIW, I was mounting the partition to /mnt/hd, and then just trying
to run lilo without any options. Obviously didn't work.

Nick
>
> The -C option won't work because the files are refered as absolute file
> if the partition is mounted on /. For example if your kernel is
> /boot/vmlinuz; in our configuration it becomes /mnt/part4/boot/vmlinuz.
>
> Olive

> Ah... this looks like what I need. I will try it Monday morning. Thanks
> all. FWIW, I was mounting the partition to /mnt/hd, and then just trying
> to run lilo without any options. Obviously didn't work.
>

It should, if you 'chroot /mnt/hd' first.

ray wrote:
>> Ah... this looks like what I need. I will try it Monday morning. Thanks
>>all. FWIW, I was mounting the partition to /mnt/hd, and then just trying
>>to run lilo without any options. Obviously didn't work.
>>
>
>
> It should, if you 'chroot /mnt/hd' first.
>
Right, right, RIGHT! chown, chmod, chroot...

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:57:38 -0600, Terrance N. Phillip wrote:

> ray wrote:
>>> Ah... this looks like what I need. I will try it Monday morning. Thanks
>>>all. FWIW, I was mounting the partition to /mnt/hd, and then just trying
>>>to run lilo without any options. Obviously didn't work.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It should, if you 'chroot /mnt/hd' first.
>>
> Right, right, RIGHT! chown, chmod, chroot...

chroot comes in useful every now and again. It basically lets you change
your root environment.