[ale] LILO blues

[jj at spiderentertainment.com]

Well, if you installed slackware.
Boot from a floppy,
mount the partition as mnt
edit your lilo.conf in etc, specify sda for boot partition
(/mnt/etc/lilo.conf)
boot=/dev/sda
then run lilo with:
lilo -v -r /mnt

Do the same for the other os.


"Glenn C. Lasher Jr." wrote:

> Hm.  Well, where do I start?
>
> Well, I blew away my Slackware 3.3 by accident, and it was residing on
> /dev/hda2, with home mounted on /dev/hda3 and a couple of other
> miscellaneous things on /dev/hda4 and /dev/hdc2.  /dev/hda1 and hdc1 were
> swap partitions.
>
> This happened while trying to install Slackware 4.0 on /dev/sda1.  Its
> home would be /dev/sda2, with other stuff on /dev/sdb2 and swap on
> /dev/sdb1.  This was, in turn to make room for Winblows NT to go on
> /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. (unfortunately, a requisite for my work).
>
> What happened is this:  LILO decided that it was going to take over the
> hda mbr instead of the sda one like it was supposed to do.  As a result,
> neither OS boots, unless I plug in a bootable floppy, for Linux, or use
> DOS fdisk to clobber the LILO on hda.
>
> My system can be configured to boot from either hda or sda.  I want to
> switch OS's by changing this parameter in the BIOS.  Therefore, I need to
> have LILO on sda.  Why won't it go there?!?!?
>
> Many thanks.
>
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