Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:57:09 +0000 From: Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is> Message-ID: <20001228195709.A5219@dustpuppy.suse.starf.rhi.hi.is> Subject: Re: [SLE] need help 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 :-) # 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 <p>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
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