[ltp] reinstalling LILO (RHL+i1460)

[José Antonio Milke G.]

Thanks for your help Shigeo, but before trying what you suggest, do I 
have to leave "initrd=" empty?
In my case the "/" partition is hda9...
Tony

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 12/5/00, 9:46:10 PM, Shigeo Tanai <xc6s-tni@asahi-net.or.jp> wrote 
regarding Re: [ltp] reinstalling LILO (RHL+i1460):


> At 03:14 00/12/06, Jos$Bq
(BAntonio Milke G. wrote:
> >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
> >6.2.

> Boot your machine with bootable [RedHat] cdrom (one you used
> for installation).  At the LILO prompt, type following:

>       linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=

> Adjust X in /dev/hdaX so it would point to right root partition
> on your disk.  If don't remember your partition layout, try
> different number.  It won't hurt, just takes time.

> # I'm assuming that your root parition is on your first
> # disk (/dev/hda).  If not, try /dev/hdb and so forth.

> After successfully booting & login, run lilo.  Just plain
> 'lilo' will do.  Reboot to see if all was sucessful or not.


> Geo

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