Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:01:13 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Thomas <ethant@pacificnet.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012281056520.5150-100000@hominy.2fortheroad.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] need help On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, 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.
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