On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Shapira Home Mail wrote:
> yep, it's a booting problem. Trouble is, i don't have a boot diskkete, and
> wouldn't know what to do even if i had one....
> see the problem???
yes. the problem is that this problem is bound to occur to you again in
the future - will you want to re-install linux everytime it happens,
instead of learning once how to solve it properly? i'm not writing this to
annoy you - i'm writing this cause i had this problem more then once, and
many other users on this list also encounter this problem occasionaly, and
thus there are solutions to this problem that are easier to employ then a
full re-install.
the basic idea is to boot your system from a floppy (or a rescue CD - for
example, if you have the red-hat 6.2 instal CD, you may boot your PC off
of t, and when it gives you te first prompt, type 'linux recue'). if you
don't posess a rescue disk, you may download one off the network. a good
one is tom's boot-root kit, but there are many others as well - make a
search for 'linux rescue floppy' in some search engine and you'll find
one.
after booting with the rescue disk, you need to mount the root partition
of your linux instalation, and run lilo, telling lilo where your
configuratin file is using its '-C' command line option.
it'll take some time getting this done the first time. when you succeed,
write down the procedure, so the next time that windows will wipe lilo off
your system - you'll know what to do.
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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