You can save yourself a great deal of trouble (now and in the future) if you learn how to boot with grub rather than lilo. If you make a grub boot floppy, you can rescue your system and then either install grub to the hard drive (recommended) or resurrect lilo. Learning how to use grub the first time is a little tricky. The best article I've seen on the topic is available at this address: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html The only thing bad about the article is that he gives complete (complicated) instructions on how to build grub from scratch by downloading source code and compiling, but in fact it's much simpler than he makes it sound. Simply download a grub boot floppy image from the recommended web site (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html) and make the grub boot floppy this way: dd if=grub-VERSION-ARCH.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 That's all you need. With this floppy you can boot any operating system on your hard drive. This floppy also has all you need to install grub permanently onto the hard drive (and then you can say goodbye to lilo forever). - Robert Storey > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 19:04, you wrote: > Howdy All: > > Can someone point me in the direction of the docs > which tell how to get into a Linux-Mandrake 8 > install after someone has wiped out the > boot-loader? I have a disk which has had "fdisk > /mbr" applied to it and I would like to access > the install again and run LILO so I can get back > to having a choice. I would really prefer to NOT > have to do a re-install. TNX, Dennis in Victoria > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
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