I had to reinstall XP due to one of their patches crashing my system... /grumble microshaft
I rebooted, and it did not load LiLo. How can I get LiLo working again so that I can get back into Linux? I really dont want to reinstall if i can avoid it, it took me a very long time to get things set up and working


Thanks

well i am not sure what distro your using (thats useful info in a post )
but typically you can use your first cd installation disc as a rescue disk, and then re-run lilo to be installed ..

Thakns, ill try that. And Im using slackware, which is why i posted in the slackware forum

heh my bad ...
i always go to the fourm index and hit the link "view threads with 0 replies"
i hardly ever notice what fourm i am in ... i apologize

Hi snowiewolf,

I just faced this problem 2 days ago. I followed this steps (I hope I don't forget anything):

1. I booted my system using Slackware 9.1 disk 1.

2. mkdir /mnt/hd

3. mount -t auto /dev/hdb3 /mnt/hd
Note: /dev/hdb3 is my main linux partition. You should put your own partition here.
rm /boot

4. ln -s /mnt/hd /boot
Note 2: I have /boot and all my linux system on the same partition. Your system may be different

5. cd /mnt/hd/sbin

6. lilo -C /mnt/hd/etc/lilo.conf

That's all. I rebooted and lilo was there again.

Hope this helps.

Bye

SnOp

OR

after mounting it at /mnt/hd

chroot /mnt/hd

Boot off the first cd, and it will tell you how to boot your system. At the boot promt type:
bare.i root=/dev/hdaX noinitrd ro (replace X with the number of your root partition)

Alright, so now you are booting up, and if you have a graphical login, hit ctrl+atl+f6. Now you login in as root, type "lilo", hit enter, and boom, you're done.
Noah

njbrain i hace done exactly what u said and the folloeing error appeared:

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03

the same error when i boot from my bootdisk...
can u help me??? thx

What else did it say?

Are you sure you have your partition number correct? If you aren't, try doing what I said above, and start with /dev/hda1 and go all the way up to /dev/hda9.
Noah

and how can i figure the number of my linux partition¿?

Guess, it won't harm anything

ok hda2 seemed to work but when i type the root pass it failed to log... dont know why...

when i type "lilo" the following error appears:

Warning: '/proc/partitions ' does not exists, disk scan bypassed
Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system

and so???

keep guessing, I don't know what else to tell you, but try /dev/hda3, and so on.
Noah