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okos	05-17-2008 04:43 PM

How to reinstall lilo?

My xp partition is messed up and I wanted to reinstall.

During the reinstall my mbr will get overwritten.

To reinstall lilo do I just have to run a live cd.

Code:

chroot /dev/hdc5 (my slackware partition)

lilo

Is that all there is to rewriting lilo over the windows mbr?
I wanted to confirm before actually making the attempt.

jailbait

05-17-2008 04:59 PM

You have to chroot to a directory:

Code:



mkdir  /sparrow

mount  -t ext3 /dev/hdc5 /sparrow (assuming / is ext3)

chroot  /sparrow

lilo

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Steve Stites

okos	05-17-2008 10:24 PM

Thanks jailbait,

Yes I tried chroot /dev/hdc5
and it obviously did not work.
I had to use chroot /mnt/hdc5

Thanks

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