Booting.....

[XwinggunnerX]

hi, I just install RedHat Linux and when they asked if I wanted to make an emergency disk, i said no. I can't boot into Linux, it just boot into windows. Is there anyway to get LiLo to work?

[nopun]

Not unless you can boot up Linux (it sounds as though you can't).
It sounds a bit defeatist, but the easiest thing to do is reinstall and say "yes" when it wants to create a boot disk. (Oh, and if it says anything about installing Lilo, say "yes" to that too)
From there, you will be in a position to fix any boot problems with the help of this forum.

[Devrdander]

You could, if needed, goto freshmeat, and download a bootdisk image and write it to a floppy with rawrite, and when it startups, it'll give you a boot promp where you can pass a line like:

vmlinuz root=/dev/hdx#
(replace x# with the partition, aka hda2 would be primary master, partition 2... hdb1 would be primary slave, partition 1, etc...)
I believe small I think that if you use small linux: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/smboot-0.7.2
and rawrite: http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-current/bootdsks.144/RAWRITE.EXE
from a dos prompt, with a blank floppy in the drive, use:
rawrite smboot-0.7.2
write it to the floppy, boot it and then pass the line I posted earlier...
Hope this didnt confuse the hell out of you... good luck or just re-install

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[pipe]

Or you could use a bootable floppy distro like tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/).

Boot from the floppy. Mount the root partition of Redhat. Do chroot to that RH root partition. Configure lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo.

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