On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:52:44AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: | The Doctor writes: | > Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows | > partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up | > another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot | > windows again? | | Run 'lilo -u /dev/hda3'. This tells lilo to put the mbr back the way it | found it.
This is a good lifesaver. I had to install RH6.2 on a machine at work (for testing our product) and it didn't ask, it simply overwrote the mbr. Then I tried grub. Get it from www.gnu.org, download the grub-0.5.96-1-i386.ext2fs file. Then copy it to a floppy using dd or rawrite and reboot. Grub is a piece of cake to get working. It boots both Linux and Win2k out-of-the-box without any trouble. I had never used grub before, but it only took about a minute before I had both systems booting cleanly. The kernel is on the hd _above_ the 1024 cylinder too. You can configure grub as you are booting (unlike lilo which requires you to boot a system first) and then set /boot/grub/menu.lst to however suits you. (just note that grub uses zero-based indexing, so /dev/hda3 is (hd0,2) to grub, you'll understand when you look at the menu.lst file or boot the sample one) I will never use lilo again, grub is just too cool! -D
