Depending on what, if any damage was done, if it was only your MBR that was hosed, rerunning LILO should correct your situation as Chris points out. I try to keep some stand-alone tools to repair my system: 1. Bootable DOS disk with fdisk. The MS-DOS fdisk can be used to rebuild the MBR. 2. Good partitioning tool, such as Partition Magic. 3. Stand-alone Linux. The SuSE boot disk can serve in this capacity most of the time. Once Yast or Yast2 starts, ctl-alt F3 should give you a shell prompt. (I think the F1 and F2 shells are used). "Stan Koper" wrote:
Can I get my hd back, or do I need to reformat and re-install? I can boot to the hard disk by using the boot disk that came with SuSE (6.3), so it's sort of usable, but I'd hate to have to clean the disk and re-install. I've updated a lot of packages, and it's the server for my home LAN.
"CN Davies" wrote:
Boot on the install disk.
Mount the installed file system. Run yast and install LILO again.
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Jerry Feldman