Re-Installing Lilo?

AFI_Flame · 11-22-2004, 10:56 PM

Ok I have a Windows XP Partition and a Slackware partition on the same hard drive. I want to reformat my Windows partition but leave my Slackware partition alone. When I do that Windows will overwrite the MBR deleting my LILO bootloader. How would I put it back on? I know Windows XP has the "fixmbr" command in the recovery console. Is there something like this for Slackware?

ror · 11-22-2004, 11:05 PM

run rerun "lilo"

ringwraith · 11-22-2004, 11:42 PM

If you don't have a boot floppy, you will need to boot your root partition using your install cd (directions are given at the boot prompt), then rerun lilo.

Berhanie · 11-23-2004, 02:34 AM

(1) Boot from the Slackware CD and log in as root.
(2) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt (but, instead of 2, use whichever partition is your root partition)
(3) chroot /mnt
(4) lilo

AFI_Flame · 11-23-2004, 10:45 AM

How would I make a boot disk? That would make this easier.

ror · 11-23-2004, 11:14 AM

CD1 is a boot disk

ringwraith · 11-23-2004, 12:07 PM

Set up lilo to write to a floppey /dev/fd0 instead of mbr and then run lilo. This will put your boot up to the floppy. You can then just use the floppy to boot slack.