[svlug] Lilo reinstall

Robert Hajime Lanning lanning at lanning.cc
Fri Sep 21 17:50:02 PDT 2001


You need to make a boot disk (or use a linux bootable cdrom) and tell
the booting kernel to mount /dev/sda7 as root. (root=/dev/sda7)

once you have logged in as root, then you run "lilo" and everything
is back to normal.

---- As written by Reg Charney:
> 
[snip]
> 
> How do I reset the MBR so I get back to the lilo multi-boot? TIA.
> 
> Reg.
> 
> P.S. I do not have a backup rescue diskette.
> 

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/* Robert Hajime Lanning                             lanning at lanning.cc
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