Windows98 overwote LILO

[Kevin]

I had windows98 and Redhat linux 6.1 running in harmony for a while but then i had to reinstall windows98 and it overwrote LILO and now i dont know how to get back into linux and get LILO back, someone help!

Thanks

[geekd]

did you make an emergency boot disk when you installed red hat?

just boot off of it, and run (as root) /sbin/lilo and you should be good...

-geekd

[furrycat]

Boot from the RedHat CD and choose "expert" install. When asked, say you'd like to upgrade your existing system. Switch to virtual terminal 4, or is it 2, I forget (which you might not be able to do until you've chosen your keyboard and install media settings) where you'll have a shell.

Mount your root partition (let's say it's on /dev/hdb1 for the sake of argument) on /mnt and if necessary your /usr partition (in /mnt/usr).

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/usr

Then you can change the root directory, as it were, to /mnt viz:

/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /bin/bash

You now have a shell on your root partition, so you can do

/sbin/lilo

and you're back in business.

Notes:

1) you could just do it in one step:

/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

2) RedHat please note: chroot should be on the root partition. chroot should be on the install disk (or CD). chroot should be statically linked. On RedHat it is none of those things.

Oops, I forgot: make sure you unmount your partitions before rebooting. Exit the shell and then:

umount /mnt/usr
umount /mnt
reboot


[This message has been edited by furrycat (edited 04-03-2000).]

[This message has been edited by furrycat (edited 09-17-2000).]