I'm running a dual boot SuSE 7.1 | win98 systems that needs to have 98 replaced with 2000 (work requirement, unfortunately). When I do so I'm obviously going to overwrite LILO with a clean MBR. At that point I will have lost aaccess to the SuSE partition on the system until I reload LILO. After studying the manual and playing with both the boot disk and bootable cd1, I am unable to determine how to rewrite LILO WOTHOUT reinstalling the system all over again from scratch. How and /or where do I interrupt the process during boot from either the floppy or cd1 to just reload my existing configuration so that I can simply rerun LILO to write to the MBR. After someone explains this I'm rather certain it will be obvious, but as of right now I can't determine how its done. thanks, dave
This is what I do: Boot one of the CD's, and select MANUAL INSTALLATION. Select START INSTALLATION and then BOOT INSTALLED SYSTEM. At that point, you are asked to specify the partition. Do so and your Linux system will boot. Login as root and run 'lilo -v'. Reboot and all should be well. On 28 Sep 2001, David Johanson wrote:
I'm running a dual boot SuSE 7.1 | win98 systems that needs to have 98 replaced with 2000 (work requirement, unfortunately). When I do so I'm obviously going to overwrite LILO with a clean MBR. At that point I will have lost aaccess to the SuSE partition on the system until I reload LILO.
After studying the manual and playing with both the boot disk and bootable cd1, I am unable to determine how to rewrite LILO WOTHOUT reinstalling the system all over again from scratch. How and /or where do I interrupt the process during boot from either the floppy or cd1 to just reload my existing configuration so that I can simply rerun LILO to write to the MBR.
After someone explains this I'm rather certain it will be obvious, but as of right now I can't determine how its done. -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0
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