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01-26-2005, 06:52 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: London
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 4
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LILO problem after disk removal
Hi,
I removed an old disk drive from my PC (dual boot Win2k/Linux). Being used to Windows (sorry), I thought everything would come back after booting the pc. Nope! All I got from LILO was: L 04 04 04 04 04... etc.
The disk I removed was just being used for the Windows swap file (it didn't have a linux partition).
I know the simple solution to this would be to put the drive back, but that's not the point!
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? How I might fix it?
Thanks!
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01-26-2005, 07:19 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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to remove lilo
bootwith a win98 CD
at the prompt
fdisk /mbr
or with a win2000 or win XP CD
run
fixmbr
in
recovery console
regards
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01-26-2005, 07:24 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: London
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 4
Original Poster
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Thanks, but I don't want to remove LILO - I just want it to work again!
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01-26-2005, 07:41 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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ok
boot from ur 1st CD
go to rescue mode
and there u can reinstall lilo
regards
Last edited by masand; 01-26-2005 at 07:42 AM.
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01-26-2005, 07:53 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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If using Slack as it says in your profile, you can just boot into your system using the first installation CD, the instructions are on the first screen you see when the system boots from the CD (it won't take you long to boot into your system). If you have upgraded your kernel you may get some error messages about modules, just diregard them. Login to a terminal as root and do /sbin/lilo then reboot.
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01-26-2005, 09:18 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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Quote:
Originally posted by reddazz
If using Slack as it says in your profile, you can just boot into your system using the first installation CD, the instructions are on the first screen you see when the system boots from the CD (it won't take you long to boot into your system). If you have upgraded your kernel you may get some error messages about modules, just diregard them. Login to a terminal as root and do /sbin/lilo then reboot.
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using slack??
it is mandrake in the profile... 
Last edited by masand; 01-26-2005 at 09:19 AM.
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01-26-2005, 10:45 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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Ha, I seem to have looked at your profile 
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