Oh No, i messed up my masterboot (Slackware9.1)

[sweetchris]

WEll I not sure what happened
When installing my slackware 9.1, I came to the part where i have to install Lilo or skip it, I set to Expert mode so that i could configure the settings of lilo, I made a header and added the target partions of Windows and Slackware, then i wanted to install it but it bounced up a message saying "you cannot install Lilo....."(can't remember the rest of the message but it was irrelevent any way.

I actually installed Slackware a few times before, but I somehow deleted the partion where linux was(how stupid can i get), it was working before, i had lilo running correctly, but i forgot how to??

then i just went mad and kept of installing Debian and slackware to have linux on my system, but whenever i finish installing debian, i wanted Slackware because i wanted slakcware.

Can anyone help me??
Chris

[serz]

Hmm.. you have slackware installed but you can't boot, right?

[sweetchris]

yea

[DMR]

Where exactly in the boot process does it stall?
Do you get any error message? If so, what are they (again, exactly)?

[serz]

Let's try this...

Boot with your Slack cd, where it says "boot:" type:

mount /dev/hdax rw

Where hdax is the name of your slack partition.

[sweetchris]

well the error message said something like this
Cannot install lilo, because lilo wasn't installed correctly, you can however use your boot disk and try and configure etc/lilo.conf

But i don't quite understand how you could configure that file from boot??
can you help me? I'm a newbie so..... don't expect me to know everything....

[asklepios]

a similar problem as yours is described a few threads below this one
anyways http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=652323

[sweetchris]

Thanks dudes
I finally did it
I deleted the master boot record's record and reinstalled the lilo boot loader
it took me about 2 -3 hours to fix it