[ltp] reinstalling LILO (RHL+i1460)

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

"José Antonio Milke G." wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> I know this may not be a specific problem for this machine, but here it
> goes...
> Briefly, under Win98, I ran Norton Antivirus, on which I accidentally
> said to repair the boot sector. After rebooting, only "LI" appeared as a
> prompt, and the machine froze. So, I had to boot under DOS and use fdisk
> /mbr, which left my machine with my previous Boot Manager (from OS/2).
> However, whenever I try to run fdisk from OS/2 (so as to add Linux to the
> menu), the program crashes.
> 
> In short, how can I restore Lilo to the MBR? Unfortunately I didn't make
> a rescue disk, though I have other Linux machines running the same RHL
i think you should make the normal boot floppy for the installer.

then use the expert mode and mount your hard disk.

then run /mnt/yourharddisk/sbin/lilo with the parameter to use your
/mnt/yourharddisk/etc/lilo.conf
that ought to do it...

brad
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