Dos killed my LILO
 

so I upgraded my Slack 7 machine to the new ver 8.1 after decided to use my two small dos partirions and install something my co-workers could handle like dos and maybe windows later, this is where I messed it up. I had the slack working just fine configured my new mouse in KDE and everything was smooth. I booted of a dos disk formated the dos partition and then installed the os dos 6.22, Now when I boot the machine it takes me straight into dos and dosen't ask me about booting to slackware or anything just straight Dos. I know I didn't kill the slackware because I can boot off of a floppy and everything is still there. How can I get back to my LILO loader short of doing a reinstall....

Tks

Matt W

if you can boot slack off a floppy then do so and log in as root and type /sbin/lilo.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=43922

do not doubel post, you already promised not to when you agreed to the rules

TYPED THAT AND NO CHANGE SAME THING HAPPENS boots to dos only, never even acts like the Linux partition is there. when I type that command it shows me that everything runs great linux is the active partition and dos is the second

yeah like i said use the OTHER thread please. thanks.

Problem solved. I ran 'liloconfig' and told it to write the file to the MBR instead of the root even though it's not the safest place to store it I figured that dos might of overwritten it and that was the prob.

sorry chris I didn't realize it meant even in different forums.

Matt W.