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hi,

i installed redhat 4.2 on a bootable partition on my 420meg conner

the first 200 megs is a fat16 i reserved for win95
and then i had a 50meg primary partition for /
and a 150 meg for /usr
and 20meg for swap

linux installed and booted fine

but then i installed win95 afterward on my first 200 megs and it killed
lilo and i can't get to my linux parition

is there anyway to put lilo back on my MBR and have the thing dual boot
win95 and linux.. preferably without reinstalling linux  i imagine that
would do it too.. but there has to be a better way right?

thank alot

steve

I not, the installation diskette may give you a way to break out of the
install process, mount the partiotion with /et in it, and run lilo from
there.

--
Robert

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Quote:>i installed redhat 4.2 on a bootable partition on my 420meg conner

Quote:>but then i installed win95 afterward on my first 200 megs and it killed
>lilo and i can't get to my linux parition

Quote:>is there anyway to put lilo back on my MBR and have the thing dual boot
>win95 and linux.. preferably without reinstalling linux  i imagine that
>would do it too.. but there has to be a better way right?

mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt
                  ^------------ (or wherever your root partition is)
lilo -r /mnt

    If lilo isn't on the install disk, then

/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt

    instead.  Once it's run, do

umount /mnt

halt

    You should be ready to go.

        That is is fairly easily done, I have had to do It many times yet far,
but with Slakcware 3.1. Get you boot disk, one that your either made
afterward( the easiest) or the original one you used to first install Linux
with. If you have one that you made after the installation was complete, it
should have wrote the boot image to the floppy, so all you do is stick the
disk and the drive and press Ctrl -Alt - Del, quite simple.
        Otherwise you have to use the original that you used as a bootdisk to
install linux. put that in the drive, reboot, and when the prompt comes up
asking for any special parameters for the kernel. just enter :
mount root=/dev/HDA2, just replace the HDA2 with whatever partition you
installed Linux onto, since you only have 1 drive it must be HDAx, x probably
being 2 or 3.
        after you are able to login, run the 'setup' program and goto the
configure option, just go through all the options as you did before, and
install LILO, or there are other lilo installation procedures, of which I'm
not that familiar . . . good luck

        Ryan Moore

  Steve> but then i installed win95 afterward on my first 200 megs and
  Steve> it killed lilo and i can't get to my linux parition

This is whay I always keep LILO on the boot sector of my root
partition and not on the MBR.

On the other hand, there are so many ways to boot Linux that it's probably not
worth the LILO maintainer's effort.

--
Hugh McCurdy

        linux root=/dev/hda2
                   ^----------(your root partition)

        and log in as root.  (your normal passwd's will work)

        then

        lilo

        halt

PS:  I use this method alot because WIn95 keeps crapping up my HD ;(

Mark

I don't know about changing the active partition with Win95's
FDISK though. Seeing as it will only allow you to create
a single primary partition + an extended partition in the
first place, and won't let you set anything in the extended
partition active. Will it allow other primary partitions to
be set active assuming that they have already been created by
a more sophisticated version of FDISK?

--
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Milton Rd, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 4FY, England. Tel: (+44) (0)1223 420414; Fax: 420044

The easiest way to fix this would be to boot with your install boot disk
and give it the 'mount root=/dev/hdx#' then when it boots up you can
just run 'lilo' as root and it should re-install the LILO configuration
to the MBR of the harddrive...
        Jeremy Bouse
        UnderGrid Network Services

Quote:> I don't know about changing the active partition with Win95's
> FDISK though. Seeing as it will only allow you to create
> a single primary partition + an extended partition in the
> first place, and won't let you set anything in the extended
> partition active. Will it allow other primary partitions to
> be set active assuming that they have already been created by
> a more sophisticated version of FDISK?

andrew