[ale] LILO laying low

Jared Lyvers mcgregor at lewiscommunications.com
Tue Jun 27 11:04:32 EDT 2000


u need to reinstall lilo.  what system are u running?  COL used a nice util
called lisa to do cammand line stuff.  u can reinstall lilo from here.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "eliminate lilo" I'm guessing that you have
> dual boot system and you can no longer boot to dos but can boot to linux
> via the boot disk? If that's the case you can boot to a dos disk and do
> fdsik /mbr that will get you booting to windows from the hard drive. As
> far as lilo I am not sure what's generating that error. 
> 
> Ken
> 
> http://cleveland.lug.net/~rocket/
> 
> The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines; 
> dangerous only when submerged.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Greetings !
> > 
> > When I try to bootup, at the prompt I get LIL-.....
> > and no bootup.
> > 
> > When attempting to use the rescue disk(s), I can mount /dev/hda2 OK, but
> > when I reconfigure lilo.conf and try to rerun "lilo", I get .....
> > 	don't know how to handle device 0x100
> > 
> > How do I return /dev/hda to bootable status ?
> > 
> > Can I eliminate lilo, for the time being, to reboot, and then
> > reimplement it's functionality ? If so, how ?
> > 
> > Is this the best route to go ?
> > 
> > Appreciatively,
> > 
> > Courtney
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Jared Lyvers
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Lewis Communications | Birmingham
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