I wiped out OS/2 BM with Lilo

I wiped out OS/2 BM with Lilo

Post by unkno » Sat, 23 Dec 1995 04:00:00



Help,

I was fooling with the lilo config file to
and apparently replaced Boot Manager with
Lilo. I tried re installing with Warp's FDISK.
But when I C-A-D I still get LILO.
When I tried to get Lilo to boot Warp The
Boot Manager came up. I selected Warp and it
booted. But I'm confused.  What did I do ?
I have One HD partitioned
Boot Manager 1 meg
2 meg dos (just to make the Drive letter come out right)
Linux
Warp

david
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I wiped out OS/2 BM with Lilo

Post by Rick Mu » Sun, 24 Dec 1995 04:00:00



>Help,
>I was fooling with the lilo config file to
>and apparently replaced Boot Manager with
>Lilo. I tried re installing with Warp's FDISK.
>But when I C-A-D I still get LILO.
>When I tried to get Lilo to boot Warp The
>Boot Manager came up. I selected Warp and it
>booted. But I'm confused.  What did I do ?
>I have One HD partitioned
>Boot Manager 1 meg
>2 meg dos (just to make the Drive letter come out right)
>Linux
>Warp

Not to worry. Just boot os/2 from the 3-disk emergency boot floppies and use
fdisk to set the 1 meg Boot Manager partition as STARTABLE.

Then have linux install LILO on the linux boot partition instead of the /MBR.

If all is well, you should be back to normal.

Best,
-rick

 
 
 

I wiped out OS/2 BM with Lilo

Post by The Ancient Marin » Sun, 24 Dec 1995 04:00:00


: Not to worry. Just boot os/2 from the 3-disk emergency boot floppies and use
: fdisk to set the 1 meg Boot Manager partition as STARTABLE.
:  
: Then have linux install LILO on the linux boot partition instead of the /MBR.

Hmm, sounded like lilo is now sitting in the mbr...  which would
necessitate running "fdisk /mbr" from os/2 or dos or something to
clean up the mbr.  If Rick's suggestion does not work, try that as
well.

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