Slackware MBR erased by Windows

Dankles · 10-17-2005, 06:56 PM

I re-Installed windows the other day on my Slackware/windows dual boot system.
After doing this, windows took over the MBR. I thought this would be ok because i have my slackware boot floppy, but i forgot that i erased kernel 2.4 after upgrading to 2.6.
I dont know how to get into my slackware installation anymore

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any ideas?

juanbobo · 10-17-2005, 07:08 PM

Boot your Slackware CD, mount your Linux partition, run "lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf".

freakyg · 10-17-2005, 07:09 PM

this is where you send a nasty email to pat volkerding and rant about CD #2 NOT being a live rescue disk!!...........

OR you could use a knoppix CD
OR the LFS liveCD 6.1........

liquidtenmilion · 10-17-2005, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by freakyg
this is where you send a nasty email to pat volkerding and rant about CD #2 NOT being a live rescue disk!!...........

OR you could use a knoppix CD
OR the LFS liveCD 6.1........

Or you could use disc 1 of slackware...

boot up with your first disc and type:

mkdir /mnt/slackware
mount /dev/hdXx /mnt/slackware #obviously replacing Xx with the right drive and partition(hda5 for example)
chroot /mnt/slackware
source /etc/profile
/sbin/lilo
init 6

Dankles · 10-17-2005, 08:02 PM

Thanks guys your awesome.
the cd thing worked. I shoulda thought of that my self (i'm not very bright i guess).

thanks again