Re: [aclug-L] LI but no LO

[Karl Juhnke <fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> Or... to simply restore it to the original (Win95-only) state, try
> booting from a DOS/Windows boot disk, and running "fdisk /mbr".  You
> should then be able to boot into Windows as normal without LILO.

Hallelujah!  Good to know I haven't permanently hosed the Windows
partition.  I think "fdisk /mbr" is within my competence, although just
barely.  :-)

> You need to reinstall LILO.  Boot from a Linux rescue/boot disk, then run
> "lilo" at the command prompt, with a valid/correct lilo.conf file in place
> (usually in /etc/lilo.conf).

I might understand what you are saying there.  If I type "lilo" at the
command prompt, will I be installing lilo, not launching it, right?

Your implication is that my lilo.conf file is probably fine.  If I wipe
clean the master boot record and reinstall lilo, then everything will
work.  I can do this.

If this doesn't work, then I assume my lilo.conf file is not valid, right?

> another good thing to do is email your /etc/lilo.conf to the list see
> we can see what the problem might be.

Heh, that would mean I have to stop playing gnuchess long enough to get
PPP working.  :-)  But I will take that as a next step if a simple
reinstall of lilo does not work.

Thanks, guys.  This is turning out to be fun (i.e. I am learning stuff)
already!

Peace,
-Fritz

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