I ended up just reinstalling linux but not formatting like Alex Yan
suggested, thanx Alex! So I can get into linux using my boot disk now, thank
you everyone who emailed back all the bits and pieces helped!
Megan
-= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-
-= Megan McGuire =-
-= http://eliet.ntsj.com =-
If you have the bootdisk from when you installed linux, use that
disk. Then you should be able to probably type
"mount boot=/dev/"
Then you want to make sure that in lilo.conf have:
boot=/dev/hda (or the harddrive that first boots)
Save it. Type 'lilo'. Restart and it should bring up lilo an
if you having serious issues with lilo you might want to investigate using
loadlin w/ multi-config.sys
/"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.curious.org/
/ \ - NO Word
I have gone through this problem so many times, it ain't funny. I think
the reason you got is somehow the kernel got corrupted. The only soluiton
that has worked for me is to boot up, and put the boot disk in there, but
actually reinstall Mandrake (or use the upgrade option) but without
actually s
Hi!
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Megan McGuire wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and it loaded and everything but when it
> restarted my puter it gave me an LI so I just used a dos startup disk and
> did fdisk \mbr so I got back into windows is there any way I can get into
> linu
Well, if you made a linux boot diskette at startup (mandrake asks if you
want to during the installation time, iirc), you can just boot into that,
and then you can run the lilo installer and make a fresh lilo MBR (so to
speak) with the command 'lilo' after you log in.
If you did not make a boot
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and it loaded and everything but when it
restarted my puter it gave me an LI so I just used a dos startup disk and
did fdisk \mbr so I got back into windows is there any way I can get into
linux now?
thanx
-= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-
-= Megan McGuire =-
-= http://eliet.n
