Restore LILO

merlin371 · 07-14-2004, 12:50 PM

I had Slack10 installed and Then I had to format the HD and reinstall windows as usuall

and now I have to recover Lilo but I can't I tried booting from CD2 of slack and using liloconfig and it didn't work it didn't do anything, so what should I do?

Thanks

keefaz · 07-14-2004, 12:58 PM

If you don't delete your slack root partition, you should be abble to boot into it from the second CD rom prompt.

merlin371 · 07-14-2004, 12:59 PM

sorry how would I do that????

keefaz · 07-14-2004, 01:05 PM

I think boot your PC with the second (or first, I can not remember) slack install cd, assuming bios settings let PC boot from CD.

You come at a stage where you see something like that :
boot :
try typing (say your slack is in /dev/hda1)
boot: root=/dev/hda1

merlin371 · 07-14-2004, 01:08 PM

ok cool I'll try that thanks

zaicheke · 07-14-2004, 08:16 PM

1.If you can boot into Slack you should just be able to run "lilo"

2.If you can't boot into Slack burn a live cd and run it from there. There are tutorials at the Knoppix website.

zaicheke · 07-14-2004, 08:18 PM

If that doesn't work you can burn a Knoppix live cd and run the "lilo" command from a chroot environment. There are tutorials at the Knoppix website.