i destroyed my lilo......um...help.

roesingape · 05-28-2003, 04:30 PM

hi. running rh9 which installed grub by default was happy, dual boot w/ winxp, was happy. later---apt-get got into a fight with rh's rpm thingy and lilo got installed and grub didn't work anymore, still, fairly happy. but, I decided to uninstall lilo to see if grub would work again (a Learning thinG) and now on boot it just goes...
LI..
LI..
LI..
LI..
so, after some net hunting and rescue disk inserting it seems I just need to boot off of cd into resuce mode and chroot to the sysimage then type 'lilo', which will reinstall it and make everything happy again!....but...I want a second opinion, and this prob won't work anyways due to aptget and rpm's catfighting al over my system about where sh*t goes. Thanks, c. (oh yeah...please help!)

jpbarto · 05-28-2003, 05:37 PM

the idea of booting off a rescue disk, chroot'ng and running lilo is correct. If the execution of 'lilo' goes off without a hitch you should be set to go.

roesingape · 05-28-2003, 08:09 PM

well, that didnt work, cause...theres no lilo to run...i uninstalled it, there is however grub and grubby but I can't figure how to get that to work....thanks...

iceman47 · 05-28-2003, 08:24 PM

grub-install <device> will install grub on <device>
example: grub-install /dev/hda

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 08:50 PM

and then, for the booting and modifying instructions, http://www.geocities.com/cyberkabila/main/grub.htm has a good tutorial (wow how many times did i refer to this site for the past 5 days?

this guy's a lot of help!)

iceman47 · 05-28-2003, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kazuni
(wow how many times did i refer to this site for the past 5 days? this guy's a lot of help!)

It's grub/lilo week

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 09:03 PM

yeah

i wish i can do something like editing grub boot screens - any tutorial out there about that? (i like grub more than lilo myself - i wanna do something like the splash boot screen for SuSE

iceman47 · 05-28-2003, 09:13 PM

there is pretty cool stuff on kde-look.org

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 09:24 PM

wow cool man thanks iceman you're cool

roesingape · 05-28-2003, 10:47 PM

I tried the grub-install thing, didn't quite work because some relic of lilo was still trying to boot from hda, so booted from rh9 cdrom and went through settup till I got to the insatll new boot loader, did that which gave me lilo back, then just had to go in and config lilo and everybody was happy. I like grub better too, which is what got me into this mess...I will attempt it again later. btw, there were plenty of websites dealing with configing a corrupt lilo while it was still there, but none (well, hardly any) if it wasn't. thanks for your help.