On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:26, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:

I had to reinstall my Win98 partition and wiped out the lilo in the MBR. I can boot with installation floppies and get to the menu screen where I can choose linux, rescue etc. If I choose to boot an installed system it just goes to windows and I don't have the choice to boot linux.

From the initial CD boot screen you should select Installation. When YaST starts you'll get a new menu. From there, boot installed system should find your linux installation and boot it.

If I do the rescue system I can boot that, mount my installed system, cd to /etc and execute lilo but it doesn't recognize where it is and apparently does not find the lilo.conf.

Assuming you've mounted your system on /mount cd /mount chroot . (note the dot here, most people miss it. It's chroot<space><dot>) mount -a /sbin/lilo should work. -- Anders Johansson

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:01:24 +0100 Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:33, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Assuming you've mounted your system on /mount

cd /mount chroot . (note the dot here, most people miss it. It's chroot<space><dot>) mount -a /sbin/lilo

should work.

The same can be accomplished a bit simpler (see also man lilo):

/sbin/lilo -r /mount

I'm not saying one way is better than the other. I just happen to like the -r option because it is short and sweat. Laziness is not necessarily a bad thing. ;-)

There is even another way to do it. :-) 1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf That's the one I always remember, because it seems straightforward to my way of thinking. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:09, zentara wrote:

There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

That's the one I always remember, because it seems straightforward to my way of thinking.

I don't think that will work correctly. If you run lilo that way, it will still install its stuff in /boot, instead of /mnt/boot. The -C option just overrides the use of the default config file, /etc/lilo.conf. You really need the -r option, or do the chroot before invoking lilo. Paul.

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:30, Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:20, Anders Johansson wrote:

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There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

hm. Will that find the kernel in /mnt/boot if lilo.conf references /boot/vmlinuz?

No, I don't think so. Therefore you need either the -r option of ^^ Dooh! Typo: "or" that is.

the chroot.

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And both methods will still need to mount /boot if it's on a separate partition.

Sure thing! And make sure that you mount the boot partition on /mnt/boot, not on /boot.

Paul.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:27:00 +0100 Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:09, zentara wrote:

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There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

That's the one I always remember, because it seems straightforward to my way of thinking.

I don't think that will work correctly. If you run lilo that way, it will still install its stuff in /boot, instead of /mnt/boot. The -C option just overrides the use of the default config file, /etc/lilo.conf. You really need the -r option, or do the chroot before invoking lilo.

Well I did forget to add to mount /boot. It's just another way, it works for me; but it's probably not the best solution. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation