Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:21:02 -0600
From: Gary
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:01:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Thomas
I have 2 HD, primary is W2K and slave is SuSE, of course Lilo sits in the MBR on the 1st HD. After putting in a new motherboard, I find that lilo will boot me just fine into SuSE, but my W2K boots, but then goes into a GPF (remember those). I have made a rescue disk for SuSE in Yast1.
Question is, if I reinstall HDa, with W2K, will the SuSE rescue disk work, so that I can boot up SuSE on hdb? I would really hate to be out both OSs. What is the best way of approaching this to insure I can boot into SuSE and redo /sbin/lilo so that lilo can be put back into the MBR when I reinstall W2K, because when I reinstall W2K, I will need to get in SuSE to set up Lilo again in the MBR to run it.
You don't even need the rescue disk, you just need your install disk because with it you can boot an installed system if you know the root partition. Run lilo after you've installed Win2k and you should be fine. Beyond that I'd suggest to dump Win2k and use the other disk for FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Any OS that can't handle a mobo change without a reinstall is pretty lacking in my opinion. I had the same thing happen with NT 4 back in the dark days. Greg
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:05:12 -0600
From: Gary
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Gary wrote:
Question is, if I reinstall HDa, with W2K, will the SuSE rescue disk work, so that I can boot up SuSE on hdb? I would really hate to be out both OSs. What is the best way of approaching this to insure I can boot into SuSE and redo /sbin/lilo so that lilo can be put back into the MBR when I reinstall W2K, because when I reinstall W2K, I will need to get in SuSE to set up Lilo again in the MBR to run it.
You don't even need the rescue disk, you just need your install disk because with it you can boot an installed system if you know the root partition. Run lilo after you've installed Win2k and you should be fine.
Thanks Greg, I will do that. the root partition is /root <g>
Beyond that I'd suggest to dump Win2k and use the other disk for FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Any OS that can't handle a mobo change without a reinstall is pretty lacking in my opinion. I had the same thing happen with NT 4 back in the dark days.
W2k is junk. If they ever tell you it doesn't crash, try 4 times in one day for me, after seasoned use, with nothing new added. It is garbage. I can't believe this happened. My ribbon cables are all correct, as is BIOS, and working. Funny you should say that, I just picked up FreeBSD, I may just put in on there. SuSE and BSD, two of the best. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:11:53 -0500
From: Ruben I Safir - Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:57:09 +0000
From: Tor Sigurdsson
I have 2 HD, primary is W2K and slave is SuSE, of course Lilo sits in the MBR on the 1st HD. After putting in a new motherboard, I find that lilo will boot me just fine into SuSE, but my W2K boots, but then goes into a GPF (remember those). I have made a rescue disk for SuSE in Yast1.
Question is, if I reinstall HDa, with W2K, will the SuSE rescue disk work, so that I can boot up SuSE on hdb? I would really hate to be out both OSs. What is the best way of approaching this to insure I can boot into SuSE and redo /sbin/lilo so that lilo can be put back into the MBR when I reinstall W2K, because when I reinstall W2K, I will need to get in SuSE to set up Lilo again in the MBR to run it.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Right now, I have hda which is useless and need to do something. I must reinstall as a last resort.
-- Best regards, Gary
Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:25:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Thomas
You can use the following procedure to reinstall lilo after installing W2K:
Insert your CD #1 from SuSE and the boot-floppy. Continue like you are going to install from CDROM, all the way until YAST loads. ( if YAST2-GUI loads, then exit it, and continue, it will ask of you which YAST to load, select YAST1 ) When YAST has loaded, press ALT-F2 to get into a shell, and issue the following commands ( a line starting with "#" is a comment :-)
If you only need to install lilo, then it's much simpler to just use YaST1 to boot an installed system. Everything is mounted in the right place and all you need to do is run lilo. Greg
# first create the mount-point mkdir /my_root # # Next mount the root partition - I assume that is /dev/hdb2 and that it's ext2 mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /my_root # # If your /boot is a seperate partition ( f.ex. /dev/hdb3 ) then you mount it # also, with "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /my_root/boot" # # Now run lilo /my_root/sbin/lilo -r /my_root # Then umount all... # First umount the /my_root/boot if it is a seperate partition, with "umount /my_root/boot" umount /my_root # Then synchronize the disks sync sync # Then give the three-finger salute Ctrl-Alt-Delete
presto - done :-)
Regards, Tor Sigurdsson
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:21:02AM -0600, Gary wrote:
I have 2 HD, primary is W2K and slave is SuSE, of course Lilo sits in the MBR on the 1st HD. After putting in a new motherboard, I find that lilo will boot me just fine into SuSE, but my W2K boots, but then goes into a GPF (remember those). I have made a rescue disk for SuSE in Yast1.
Question is, if I reinstall HDa, with W2K, will the SuSE rescue disk work, so that I can boot up SuSE on hdb? I would really hate to be out both OSs. What is the best way of approaching this to insure I can boot into SuSE and redo /sbin/lilo so that lilo can be put back into the MBR when I reinstall W2K, because when I reinstall W2K, I will need to get in SuSE to set up Lilo again in the MBR to run it.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Right now, I have hda which is useless and need to do something. I must reinstall as a last resort.
-- Best regards, Gary
Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
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