RH8 boot disk required...
 

Hi all,

I have a Windows XP and a RH8 partition in my harddisk, but my windows partition screwed up some days ago and I've reinstalled it. But now the lilo doesn't not load up and I can't boot into the linux partition.

I've searched the internet and it said all i need to do is to run the lilo again in linux partition by using a boot disk. But the problem is, all of my linux disks including CDs and floopy disks are gone and I don't know where they are, I can't use the RH8 CD to boot the system up nor the floopy coz i don't have them with me. Can anyone send me the content of the bootup disk or have any suggestions that I can use a floopy to boot the linux partition up so that I can make the lilo working again.

I've tried tomsrtbt last night and I can access to my linux partition but I can't run the lilo coz of the permission level. The tomsrtbt does not have the super-user mode so I can't run it.

Is there anybody can offer a help? Thanks you

Maybe you can find something at ...
http://www.linux.org (I found this in another post here)

eg under catagori choose minimalist. I dont think it matters if it is not a red hat disk. You just boot the floopy and edit /ect/lilo.conf and then lilo.

if there is no luck in that you "just" need cd1 from redhat I think.

I can't believe that tomsrtbt does not have root login. It would render it useless as a root boot disk. Are you sure you cannot get access? Maybe you need to chroot into the mounted filesystem with all partitions under / mounted under the mount point as they should be on the redhat system and try it.

um...after I've boot the tomsrtbt, logoned as root with default password 'xxxx', I've mounted my linux partition hda6 to the folder /mnt, and I can see everything in my partition. But when i type 'lilo' it said "/etc/lilo.conf file not found". I've checked the /etc folder I can see the file lilo.conf.anadona (or sth like that), and when i type the file name it said permission denied. I've tried to type "chroot /mnt/ lilo" it said "/etc/lilo.conf file not found". I've also tried to rename the lilo.conf.anadona to lilo.conf, but still doesn't work...

any idea what should I do? I still don't have the RH8 CD here...

Thanks in advance

Just chroot into the mounted system

chroot /mnt

then run lilo.

/sbin/lilo