On 30-Sep-99 Stanley C. Rogacki wrote:

Originally, I had been using a boot disk for Linux. Then, I set up LILO to boot up Linux and Win98, each on a separate HDD. I needed to reinstall Win98, so it overwrote the MBR and LILO. Win98 boots up OK, but I'm lost on how to access Linux. I tried using the boot floppy for my configuration, but it appears that some mount points may have changed, because the boot process stops with a "kernel panic...". My SuSE original boot disk is bad (see other posting!), so I'm trying to figure how to fix this, rather than reinstalling SuSE. I do not have a rescue disk (ugh!).

I could reload SuSE and set it up in a couple of hours, but it would be an learning exercise for me to fix the problem, if at all possible.

Any thoughts?

Yes, boot from your floppy and on the LILO: boot prompt enter: root=/dev/hdaX single (where X is the drive number of the root partition, e.g.3) single makes sure you boot in single user mode when you have got a prompt, re-run lilo, which should fix your problem. I hope this is going to work, JJ Hendriksen -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/