HELP!!! Toasted My MBR

BashTin · 12-30-2009, 10:59 AM

Come on save me..... again!

Ok lets not get into how or why because tinkering is what Linux is about afterall!

So I have to restore my MBR. Well I booted up off the Slacky install CD and did something along the lines of

Code:

mkdir mymount
mkdir mymount/root
mkdir mymount/boot
mount /dev/sda6 mymount/root
mount /dev/sda7 mymount/boot
/mymount/root/bin/chroot /mymount/root /sbin/lilo

But then lilo complains about cannot find /boot/vmlinuz. I figure this is because the boot and root are on separate partions so lilo cannot locate the config files due to the chroot command. I did try from lilo directly - 'lilo -C ../etc/lilo.conf' but then it complains about cannot find /boot/map.

Someone save me and let me know what dummy should do :-)

Thanks in advance, BashTin.

~sHyLoCk~ · 12-30-2009, 11:01 AM

Quote:

mount /dev/sda6 mymount/root
mount /dev/sda7 mymount/boot

To:

Quote:

mount /dev/sda6 mymount/root
mount /dev/sda7 mymount/root/boot

DonnieP · 12-30-2009, 02:15 PM

If that didn't solve it - in my experience chroot is not required. As long as the device names are the same booting from the CD as they are on your normal HD boot, then you can just mount the device that contains your usual /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo -C from the CD pointing to that conf file (wherever you mounted it). The file itself points to the necessary boot and root devices. So if you mounted the partition with the good lilo.conf to /mymount/root then you would run from the CD:

lilo -C /mymount/root/etc/lilo.conf

JokerBoy · 12-30-2009, 02:37 PM

try:

Code:

mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/boot
/sbin/lilo -r /mnt (if this not work try "/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt" )

BashTin · 12-30-2009, 07:03 PM

Thanks, one happy Slacker again!

I tried the solutions from the top and ~sHy worked straight off so did not have a chance to try DonnieP and JokerBoy's solutions but thankyou to you all.

Happy New Year.

BashTin.