you can mount the ext3 as ext2 i think
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt
then i prefer
chroot /mnt lilo
but dave is probably thinking of some things i'm not

so what do you say daVE?

yes that should work

tomsrtbt is a boot floppy that contains a linux system. It is mainly used for repairing systems, it is recommended that you have a root/boot disk around for things like this

I would agree though that there must be a way to do it with the mandrake cd, I have not used mandrake rescue. RedHat mounts the system in /mnt/sysimage

this would mean you can run chroot /mnt/sysimage and you would be on the system where you could run lilo to fix it

mount
will tell you where /dev/hda2 is mounted

okey that did not work. forget that. i will try to reinstall linux, but then i need you guys to help me with the keyboard during new instalation. New problem. When i try to re-install bootloader from rescue it installs it, but my keyboard dont work when linux asks for my confirmation to install boot loader. All i need to do is press enter but my keyboard dont work. And this is after kernel has startet. Is there any command i can use to make my keyboard work? now i use : "boot : noauto rescue (enter)" Is there any thing else i might add?

I would not do that

this is very simple

there's just something about lilo and newbies.
they get freaked out and mad really fast and give up.
to us, its like hooking up cables between 2 vcr's and
a tv, and they get frustrated cause they can't get the
cables in the right order, and take the vcr's back to
the store.
we ought to make a rescue floppy that does nothing
but mount the filesystem and reinstall their lilo, and
put a link to it on this site, since this comes up so
often.

oki, im happy to inform that i am now in linux and writing to you guys from here. . .tada. . thanks for all help. By the way. can you name me any editors in console? how do i edit the bootline with noapm?? Kenneth

at the boot promt you need to enter the name of the label you want to boot

it may be "linux" or "RedHat Linux"

something like that, whatever it shows in the list.

so it will be

"RedHat Linux noapm"

editors are vi, pico, nano

Note that spaces are not a good idea in the label, but redhat does it anyway, so surround it by quotes if it has spaces in it, or just ignore errors

But can't i write it permanently in some sort of boot file?? So i don't have to write "linux noamp" everytime i boot??

lilo.conf maybe?? But where does lilo.conf lie?? in what folder?

My lilo.conf is in /etc - no subdir; just /etc/lilo.conf. And I get a screen where there's a default OS or I can arrow up or down. No typing, as such, at all. Then there's a text message below with a prompt where I can type in the label if I want.

*g* I musta got lucky, because LILO's been pretty good to me. I do notice a lot of people have problems with it and get freaked out by it, though.

noapm would go in the append line,
just like hdc=ide-scsi like
apend="hdc=ide-scsi mem=nopentium noapm"

assuming thats how to phrase the noapm line.

when i first started using linux, 10 years ago, on
a 16mhz 386sx with 2 megs of ram, whenever
i would mess anything up, i would just reinstall
everything too. I didn't get where i could do anything
with linux until about when slackware 96 came out.
back before then, you had to write your own
XF86Config with vi. I remember walking around
to different people asking if anyone knew how
to mount a floppy in linux. that was in '94.
man is this offtopic.

Guys, couldn't you just have said boot off the Mdk9.1 disk, Enter rescue mode, then Restore Lilo/bootloader option? I know I did with Mdk9.0 vs win98

Too bad you as a mandrake user didn't post earlier.
You would have saved applejuice some stress.