On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:27:04 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> > Not at all! I will try something like that to be able to boot Debain. > As of now I have no way to boot the Debian install. since lilo did not > write to the drive. In fact, the installer, might not have correctly > written (and formatted the partitions) the partitions since I have had > trouble mounting them in libranet. I have not looked deeply into this > yet.
It won't be possible to do it until you can boot into the system. One way to do that is with the installation cdrom. First you need to know what partition you put / on. Let's say it was /dev/hda6 for example. You boot with the cdrom and at the boot: prompt, type: rescue root=/dev/hda6 That will cause the kernel on the cdrom to boot and give you /dev/hda6 as /. Then you can run '/sbin/lilo -u' to restore the mbr. I'm assuming that you are not using the same /boot partition for more than one distro. In that case, I'm not sure what you will have for the backup mbr, because you may have one there from an earlier installation of something else. You could look at the date on /boot/boot.0300. If it is the same date as your debian installation date, then it will be the one you want and /sbin/lilo -u will replace it. Once you are in Debian, you can make the lilo boot floppy. If the mbr is restored, you should be able to boot into your other distro - the one you used to put grub in - and modify /boot/grub/menu.lst or whatever the config file for grub is, and put Debian in it. If you get that right, you should be able to just boot Debian from the hard drive without the floppy. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
