Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-29 Thread tripolar
Thanks to all who tried to help. I lost patience and re-installed. I am going to post comments/questions about new sarge installer & LILO On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:23, Mark Haney wrote: > > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > > lilo is installed on sarge. grub ma

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread jason pearl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just booot up linux and edit ur lilo.conf file it isnt activated yet as root type lilo im assuming u have a clean install then edit ur lilo.conf similar to this if u have window in your first partition boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot.

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Mark Haney: > I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up my MBR just the other day > and was able to fix it with the Woody install CD #1, which can also > serve as a rescue CD. I booted to the CD, and then entered: > > 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda3' > > at the prompt. This started up the

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
> > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not > configured. > > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to > make > > boot floppy > > thanks > > I haven't tried Knoppix ye

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
> can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not configured. > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to make > boot floppy > thanks I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up m

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread ScruLoose
First thing: pease don't top-post. It screws up the readability of the thread. Also, please send followup messages to the list, not to the individual. There may be others on the list who know more, and just because somebody answers once doesn't mean they want to be your personal mentor. Not that I

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:26:33PM +0100, tripolar wrote: > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not configured. > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to make > boot flopp