Hi all, I'm planning to reinstall w2k on a pc that has 2 IDE HDD in it. One is running SuSE 8.0 and lilo is boot the boot manager. Now when I reinstall windows it will remove the lilo part in the boot sector on the w2k disk. How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think. Any help would be appreciated. thx, Peter
On Saturday 28 December 2002 6:19 am, Peter van Eck wrote:
Hi all,
I'm planning to reinstall w2k on a pc that has 2 IDE HDD in it. One is running SuSE 8.0 and lilo is boot the boot manager. Now when I reinstall windows it will remove the lilo part in the boot sector on the w2k disk.
How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think.
Any help would be appreciated.
thx,
If I were doing this I would: 1) Do the re-install of W2K (if you must... :-) 2) Boot from the SuSE 8.0 install CD's (or DVD) and run the 'rescue' system. 3) Mount my '/' partition on /mnt of the rescue system. 4) chroot /mnt (and you are now running your normal 8.0 system. 5) Mount the /boot partition. 6) Run Lilo to re-install lilo in the MBR. The above assumes your /etc/lilo.conf is already set up to boot W2K also but if you're doing a re-install I would assume it is.
Peter
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Peter van Eck
How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think.
See the LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO. In general: boot from a rescue CD, mount the SuSE's file systems and execute # chroot /rootpart /sbin/lilo It will use the original /etc/lilo.conf to restore the content of the MBR. Then you can boot to Linux again. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
Viestissä Lauantai 28. Joulukuuta 2002 03:19, Peter van Eck kirjoitti: Hi, Peter, I did something similar, perhaps this could help you. First, in Bootloader configuration, I wrote lilo on a floppy to make sure I'll be able to boot SuSE again. (And I tested the floppy, too :-)) After installing w2k I did boot SuSE with the floppy, then rewrote lilo (with YaST) on MBR. If I recall correctly, w2k was idetified automatically by lilo. The questionable part could be that I had already a wME installed, when I started with all above mentioned. But at least that's how you could be able to boot SuSE, I think Hope this will help best regards, Tapio
Hi all,
I'm planning to reinstall w2k on a pc that has 2 IDE HDD in it. One is running SuSE 8.0 and lilo is boot the boot manager. Now when I reinstall windows it will remove the lilo part in the boot sector on the w2k disk.
How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think.
Any help would be appreciated.
thx,
Peter
-- Tapio Tuovila Talvikkitie 51 B 8 01300 VANTAA FINLAND
thanks all got several options I believe floppy or rescue cd shuold get it to work again. Didn't cross my mind yet to do it that way. Peter Tapio Tuovila wrote:
Viestissä Lauantai 28. Joulukuuta 2002 03:19, Peter van Eck kirjoitti: Hi, Peter,
I did something similar, perhaps this could help you. First, in Bootloader configuration, I wrote lilo on a floppy to make sure I'll be able to boot SuSE again. (And I tested the floppy, too :-)) After installing w2k I did boot SuSE with the floppy, then rewrote lilo (with YaST) on MBR. If I recall correctly, w2k was idetified automatically by lilo.
The questionable part could be that I had already a wME installed, when I started with all above mentioned. But at least that's how you could be able to boot SuSE, I think
Hope this will help
best regards, Tapio
Hi all,
I'm planning to reinstall w2k on a pc that has 2 IDE HDD in it. One is running SuSE 8.0 and lilo is boot the boot manager. Now when I reinstall windows it will remove the lilo part in the boot sector on the w2k disk.
How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think.
Any help would be appreciated.
thx,
Peter
-- Tapio Tuovila Talvikkitie 51 B 8 01300 VANTAA FINLAND
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On Saturday 28 December 2002 11:19, Peter van Eck wrote:
Hi all,
I'm planning to reinstall w2k on a pc that has 2 IDE HDD in it. One is running SuSE 8.0 and lilo is boot the boot manager. Now when I reinstall windows it will remove the lilo part in the boot sector on the w2k disk.
How can I get lilo to boot w2k again after the w2k installation as I won't be able to boot SuSE anymore I think.
Any help would be appreciated.
thx,
Peter
Rather than LILO, use GRUB as the boot manager. If you want to try this, I can help. On installing 8.1 on my Toshiba, the boot manager would not br written to MBR. Loading GRUB manually was not difficult, provided the partitions of the op. systems are known.
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