[ltp] LILO problems

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

All i can think of is try
booting from a floppy and
re-running lilo

brad
dufva@dk.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Ok, I did this to myself, but I thought it should be possible...
> 
> I movede my linux partition using PQMagic4.  First I should explain my
> setup:  I have one hard-drive with the following partitions:
> 
>   1:  Primary, Winblows95
>   2:  Extended, containing:
>       3: Linux root/boot/whatever
>       4: Linux swap
>   5: Boot Manager
> 
> What I did was to shrink partition one, move the start of partittion two
> (the extended) backwards to fill the gap, move partition 3 (Linux root) to
> the start of the extended and finally resize the linux partition.
> 
> I know the LILO references sectors on the disk directly, but I had expected
> it to reference sectors relative to the start of partition 3 and thus not
> be affected, but alas.
> 
> All I get is the "LI".  The bootdisk HOWTO says that this can either be
> caused by a geometry mismatch, or by moving /boot/boot.b without running
> the map installer.  This is all very well, but my question is really:  How
> do I fix the problem?
> 
> The installation is a plain RedHat 6.1 with everything installed.  Smart as
> I am, I didn't create a rescue disk, but isn't there a way to reload the
> LILO with the default settings, or something like that?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Nicolai Dufva
> 
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Bradley W. Langhorst
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Whitehead Institute - Center for Genome Research
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