My machine is a dual boot Win 98 / RH 7.3. I use PM's Boot Magic, installed on my MBR, as my primary boot manager. I use LILO, installed in my linux boot partition, as my secondary boot loader to load Red Hat.
You might try: 1) Booting into Windows to make sure Boot Magic installed and working. Make emergency boot discs using Partition Magic and Windows while you're there. 2) Do a reinstall of RH 7.2, installing LILO in your /boot partition, NOT your Master Boot Record (MBR). Do be sure that your /boot partition is below the 1024 cylinder boundary. You may need to juggle things around with Partition Magic to get it this way. BTW, Partition Magic 5.0 will NOT work with Ext3 file systems. 3) Go back to Windows and add the linux partition to your Boot Magic menu. 4) Reboot the machine and see that Boot Magic gives you Windows and Linux as options. When you choose Linux, you'll go to the LILO menu. Choose linux again. This works for me. On 05/19/02, 11:14:50PM -0700, Eric Kadison wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone help me figure out how to get my RH 7.2 back? I've used a LILO > boot diskette since installing RH on my dual boot RH 7.2 / Win 98 system. I > recently used Partition Magic to increase the size of my RH / partition and > now the boot diskette won't work. I guess it knew the partition layout. My > RH partitions are all Ext2, not Ext3 type. > > Now I need to figure out how to boot something that will allow me to get > back into RH and I haven't a clue as to what. > > I might install PM's boot loader to give me a permanent solution. Is this a > viable solution? I have PM 5.0. I've not been successful with GRUB -- it > got an exception during the RH 7.2 install. I backed off to LILO, But it > would not install on the hdd -- cylinder no > 1024. System is an Athlon > 850, 256 MB RAM, 13 GB IBM HDD (ATA66) using an Via-based MB. > > TIA, > Eric -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
