Can't boot red hat following windows xp reinstallation

tomworboys · 12-14-2003, 08:47 AM

Please can someone help. I had red hat 9 and windows xp running seamlessly on the same computer, i then had to reinstall windows xp and now the lilo boot selector screen does not appear so I can't boot red hat. Any advise would be gratefully received, thanks

david_ross · 12-14-2003, 09:49 AM

Welcome to LQ.

If you boot with RedHat CD1 and at the "boot:" prompt type "linux rescue" it will bring you to a shell. Change your root directory to your install "chroot /mnt/sysimage". Then you can reinstal lilo to the MBR "lilo -M /dev/hda".

tomworboys · 12-14-2003, 12:21 PM

thanks for your help, I just get the usage message though, stating all the different tags that can be used with the command lilo

feetyouwell · 12-14-2003, 01:55 PM

you should be able to just pop in RH9 CD and reinstall Lilo, and that should work.

tomworboys · 12-14-2003, 02:09 PM

sorry, but i have no idea how to do that

tomworboys · 12-14-2003, 02:43 PM

by the way when i have run the rescue disk the lilo.conf file is missing

Mathieu · 12-14-2003, 04:17 PM

Booting into Rescue Mode
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...mode-boot.html

Your lilo.conf should be located in the /etc directory.