How to reinstall lilo?

okos · 05-17-2008, 04:43 PM

My xp partition is messed up and I wanted to reinstall.

During the reinstall my mbr will get overwritten.

To reinstall lilo do I just have to run a live cd.

Code:

chroot /dev/hdc5 (my slackware partition)
lilo

Is that all there is to rewriting lilo over the windows mbr?
I wanted to confirm before actually making the attempt.

jailbait · 05-17-2008, 04:59 PM

You have to chroot to a directory:

Code:

mkdir  /sparrow
mount  -t ext3 /dev/hdc5 /sparrow (assuming / is ext3)
chroot  /sparrow
lilo

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Steve Stites

okos · 05-17-2008, 10:24 PM

Thanks jailbait,

Yes I tried chroot /dev/hdc5
and it obviously did not work.
I had to use chroot /mnt/hdc5

Thanks