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Old 01-29-2007, 01:20 AM   #1
loserveg
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testing other distro and now im left with only windows


hi,

so i was trying out PCLOS to see what all the hype was, went through the installer, everything was fine...i thought

i added my Slackware partition to grub thinking that it was on the same partition (sda3) but that screwed up somehow (i think PCLOS rearranged the partitions and pushed the slack root i had to sda7 (i dont know)

i tried to restore lilo using lilo -M /dev/sda

when i rebooted i was thrown directly into windows, no lilo or grub at all...

how do i restore lilo so i can get back to slack and get rid of pclos?

i have the slack 11 dvd and the pclos livecd, but obviously i lack the understanding of lilo/grub and cant restore it without direction (that and i have important data on my slack partition and dont want to risk screwing it up any more than i already have)

any help would be greatly appreciated

~matt
 
Old 01-29-2007, 01:38 AM   #2
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I'd go for the lazy/barbarian approach: Boot into a Live CD, backup your data and wipe out the whole drive. Then re-install desired OSes.

Or if I'm not mistaken, you can burn a bootable Grub CD and use it to boot back to Linux and re-install grub/play around with your partitions.
 
Old 01-29-2007, 01:56 AM   #3
loserveg
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so after getting over my lazy spell, i just did the trial and error method with the dvd, sata.i root=/dev/sdaX noinitrd ro until i found my slack partition, ran /sbin/lilo again and all is well, thanks for the quick response.

also, i found that pclos was not fitting to my tastes...live and learn right?
 
  


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