t: Re: reinstall lilo after windows
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:39AM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> > I know it will fire my bootloader (
hi ya hendrik
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > boot = /dev/fd0
> > > root = /dev/hda1
>
> Poor choice of language. Yes. It boots the MBR on the floppy,
> then tries to read the kernel, the initrd, and such from /dev/hda1.
yup..
> But if the drive has been physically moved t
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > > vi lilo.conf
> > > boot = /dev/fd0
> > >
> > > root = /dev/hda1
> >
> > Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda1?
>
> no... it boots from floppy ( the MBR )
Poor choice of languag
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > vi lilo.conf
> > boot = /dev/fd0
> >
> > root = /dev/hda1
>
> Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda1?
no... it boots from floppy ( the MBR )
it's told that /, /dev, /etc, /bin etc ( rootfs ) is on /dev/hda1
> How will it know to look on
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:31:00AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > mkboot only works if you have lilo installed.
>
> those commands and gazillion other equivalent/similarly
> named commands all have assumptions in order to work
And boy, is it confusing if you don't know what the assumptions are!
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
to wipe out the mbr
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1
aka: fdisk /mbr
aka: reformat/reinstalling :-)
to install the mbr
dd if=working-mbr of=/dev/hda
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:39AM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
>
> If you have a floppy drive, one of these shou
I do not have idea why this very useful option is removed from sarge.
Now i always need 2 cd's, sarge and woody with xfs.
In my opinion it's the worst change from woody to sarge.
Full rescue support was not integrated into d-i by the time sarge was
released.
The latest Installers have a res
If you have Woody install cd you can run it with:
rescue root=/dev/hdaX
and when system is up make:
# lilo
that's it.
I do not have idea why this very useful option is removed from sarge.
Now i always need 2 cd's, sarge and woody with xfs.
In my opinion it's the worst change from woody to sarg
Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
If you have a floppy drive, one of these should work:
use 'mkboot' to make a boot floppy (easiest). Be sure to test be
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
>
> That lilo loads three linux installation at the moment (one Debian, one
> Mandriva and one Fedor
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
I think the moral of the story is: use GRUB. Is there any advantage to
using LILO these days?
I know how to use it. serious advantage. ;)
A
Angelo
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
seems to me that windows has problems with this. it really only wants
to be first partition on the first harddrive. I strongly recommend
that you put windows on its own HD, or on the first partition of a
second HD. you can remap the drives in lilo so that windows d
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Hi,
I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
That lilo loads three linux installation at the moment (one Debian, one
Mandriva and one Fedora). They are respectively an hda1 to hda3. Lilo's
Maurits van Rees wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
(...)
The partition for the windows OS is ready and empty. It's hda4
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
>
(...)
> The partition for the windows OS is ready and empty. It's hda4
I wonder if Windows knows that i
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