Lilo messed up.

Lenny

I put on SuSE 6.3 on, with WindowsME
installation worked grand, was booting fine, then one day, lilo just disappeared, and my computer automactially goes into Windows, I try reinstalling SuSE (had to just to get Lilo back on) but then it wouldn't let me write it to the partiction, or a floppy, and sujjestion's on how I can just get Lilo on without having to go through installing everything again?

Thanks very much for the reply's.

logic1

Well you should have made a linux boot floppy
If you have boot from that and simply invoke lilo at the prompt and reset it up.

.logic.

Ba$tard

Yeah point Logic1.

Or run the setup again from the bootable CD and when you get to the lilo (setup) screen, type " Linux single " and then just run ./lilo in /etc and that should repair your Boot Sector/MBR...

Else, you know anyone with a Boot Disk of the same SuSE distro? You can use theirs...

Be careful thou...

Ba$tard...

Lenny

ok, I did try to make a bootable floppy for start up
but it wouoldn't allow me, kept on getting "connot write to floppy"
I tryied a few of them, so I just gave up on making a boot floppy

Kev

i dont know about suse but with my debian cd, when it boots there an option called expert or advanced or something which if you select it you can type rescue root=/dev/hda2 which boots your linux partition assuming its on hda2, so you might not need a boot floppy if the suse cd has a similar option.

correct me if im wrong but ./lilo in /etc won't work, should it not be /sbin/lilo

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Mr. Chuffy

Snaga

Just be careful when running any hard disk utilities in windows as some of them like to mess with the master boot record.

Lenny

actualy maybe now that you sa that Snaga..
I think it could have been Norton utilities
or AV, cause it said partition is invailded, I think I clicked on repair
doh!

Shagus

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by logic1:
Well you should have made a linux boot floppy
</font>

Wow .. sound 20/20 hindsight advice there

Catch_22

download http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~nmullen/boot/tar.gz

extract this in windows and it will allow you to make a linux boot disk (its a copy of toms root and boot disk)

boot the machine with this then mount your old root partioion as /mnt e.g. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

then you should have your lilo binary at /mnt/sbin/lilo

i cant realy remember whether you will need to create the /etc/lilo.conf or whether it will use /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

if it uses /mnt/etc/lilo.conf simply run /mnt/sbin/lilo

other wise copy /mnt/etc/lilo.conf to /etc and run /mnt/sbin/lilo

this should reinstall lilo on the mbr and allow your suystem to boot

tell us what happened

c22

Catch_22

doh ! typo should be
http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~nmullen/boot.tar.gz

sorry

Shagus

Whoops ..
Typos aren't tolerated..

According to logic1, that makes you an idiot.

Sorry, not my rule.


[This message has been edited by Shagus (edited 11-07-2001).]