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Yes i can only assume the lilo boot parttition was on my master hdd & now after reformat & reinstall of new o/s's i have lost it. Yes i can boot into it from a boot disk but how can i add this boot sector again.
When starting machine it used to go to lilo where i could then press enter to go to Linux or type dos to go to boot loader. This is how i idearly want it
Can i do something now that i am into Linux??. This is the information i can give about current setup
Please see next posting for shell details on lilo..
[root@echelon /root]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb5 6073056 2685720 3140580 46% /
/dev/hdb1 27987 4977 21406 19% /boot
[root@echelon /root]# /sbin/lilo -v -v -t
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hdb5
Warning: /dev/hdb5 is not on the first disk
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Secondary loader: 8 sectors.
Syntax error near line 12 in file /etc/lilo.conf
Removed temporary file /boot/map~
Wow, hold on a sec, in your lilo.conf the entry for dos is pointing to /boot partition (no good), run as root
/sbin/fdisk -l
to list all the partitions, locate one which is FAT32 or NTFS. BTW what is the second OS, Win9x/Me or NT/2000/XP?
then you will have to substitute
other=/dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdXN learned from fdisk, it might be /dev/hda1, and rerun lilo to write it to MBR.
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