On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:59:00 +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Yall & especially Doug & Pigeon, > >thanx for the feedback guys :-) > >Here is what I've done so far. > >In re-installing XP, I used Partition Magic & this changed the order of >/dev/hdax > >I used Knoppix, to mount my hdd's, then my Tux Boot Floppy & edited the >latters "syslinux.cfg", to point to the new root partition, in my case >/dev/hda3... > >Why, "rescue root=/dev/hda3" failed, I dunno. > >Anyhow, that last piece of magic worked :-) > >Now I get the following error message when re-running lilo.... > ><snip> >haralambos:/home/haralambos# lilo >Added Linux * >Skipping /vmlinuz.old >Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda3 doesn't have a valid boot signature >haralambos:/home/haralambos# ><snip> > >How do I fix that mess? > >My /boot is /dev/hda1 ???? > >*BFN* > man lilo suggests lilo -i /boot/boot.b (replace with filename of a good boot image, default is /boot/boot.b but you may have more recent /boot/boot.NNNN images. If your boot is on /dev/hda1 you'll have to mount that to read the boot image. I suggest using lilo -t -i /boot/boot.b to start with, the -t means go through the motions but don't actually do anything. As I said I don't use lilo so don't rely on this too much. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
