I read thru some posts about people who had problems booting into RH9... I'm runnin a dual boot RH9 and XP on my inspirion 5100 laptop... had to reinstall windows afterwards, and now GRUB wont load. I've booted into the RH9 disc 1, ran a update, decided to reinstall the boot loader. i tried to reinstall GRUB, didnt work, got a "no kernel installed"... redid that but for LILO, same problem. ran rescue mode, did a chroot /mnt/sysimage... exit, exit, reboot... still no bootloader. i need help here - i dont want to have to reinstall RH9 all over again... if i have to, i will - there's nothing i have saved, program/file wise, that i need to worry about just yet... just dont want to have to go thru the hassle of reinstalling. can anybody help me out here?

thanks in advance

I am not sure what your problem is. One thing I would check is your partition configuration. Do you have separate partitions for / and boot? If so, then one possibility is that the / partition is OK but the boot partition is clobbered.

Another possibility is that /etc/fstab contains an error.

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Steve Stites

i know i have a partition for / and /boot... i just reinstalled linux... and Lilo still won't load. i can't get into linux. whenever i restart, i keep going back into windows.

"whenever i restart, i keep going back into windows."

When you installed Windows XP it wrote a boot record on the MBR. Since then have you written a grub MBR with the grub-install command or a lilo MBR with the lilo command?

Here is a HOWTO on installing lilo:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

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Steve Stites

yeah i have... i reinstalled twice... and the first time, i installed it to the MBR... second time, the first sector of the partition... and neither worked. i still can't get in linux.

I had a problem too...

what did you do to create lilo.conf?

Hi...

If you installed GRUB as your main boot loader, then you would have a lilo.conf sample file in your /etc directory...that is

/etc/lilo.conf.anaconda

If you want to replace GRUB with LILO, or LILO with GRUB, you may find my replies in the below-mentioned post useful

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...grub+with+lilo

To install GRUB, boot into rescue mode, chroot /mnt/sysimage and then run the command

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

(assuming, linux is installed on hard disk number 1)

The above post will let u switch from one bootloader to another.

Regards,

amit