On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:11 pm, Nicholas wrote: > i read a documentation on howto remove grub from linux partition > and reinstall it back with lilo, but the guy provided wrong info by > telling the public to : use a win98 startup disk to run fdisk /mbr > > then when the time i reboot using a linux startup disk, it actually > cant find any partition. i am now headache with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > because i have 40 gig of information in my partition. help!!!!!!
Not to worry, fdisk / mbr only write your MBR. All your data should still be there. If you don't have a linux boot floppy, the thing you can do is 1. Get your Linux CD 1 2. make a directory in /mnt, eg $> mkdir myroot Try to mount your root partition there, if you don't know which one, just try it, no harm will be done, eg; $> mount /dev/hda[x] myroot change [x] with number (1,2,3) until you find your root (by entering that directory and look around. It should have directory like etc/, usr/ ) If you got mount fail, try with different number. If you mount the wrong partition, unmount and try different number. 3. Once you got the root partition in /mnt/myroot, see if you have lilo.conf file in /mnt/myroot/etc/lilo.conf. If you do, you're in luck and do the following: 3a - change your root $> chroot /mnt/myroot - Run lilo $> /sbin/lilo -Reboot and be happy If you don't have lilo.conf already, you need to find your /boot partition (assuming it's separate from the / partition). Make another directory in /mnt/myboot and try to find it by doing 2 above. Remember the partition number, and then write your lilo.conf in /mnt/myroot/etc/lilo.conf. After that do 3a and you should be fine. Hope that helps. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
