oh no oh no oh no!!! lilo problems....

[optech]

i re-installed Windows 98 tonight (just now) and when i had everything all cozy-like, i rebooted to go into linux, but to my dismay, instead of the good ol LILO: prompt, it just loaded windows!!! i thought that lilo was just on empty HD space, and nothin to do with windows!! wtf is going on? i don't have a linux start-up disk (i don't have ANY disks actually... lost every single one of them... i had 200 too...) so i'm not quite sure how i'm going to be able to do this, but if windows can do this, then there must be a system file somewhere that will say
"dont_let_linux_load=TRUE"
or something... please help, i'll be going through linux withdrawl soon...

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"...seldom give ungaurded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." J.R.R. Tolkien

[Evil Jeff]

If you have a boot disk for you distro, boot into linux at the prompt and run /etc/lilo. That should restore your lilo config. But you'll still have to set up lilo to boot to windows as an option.

Evil Jeff
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[RageAHolic]

If you can boot from your CD-ROM...use the installation CD and pass the following option at the boot prompt:

linux root=/dev/hdxx (where hdxx is the drive letter and partition number.)

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[This message has been edited by RageAHolic (edited 11 December 2000).]

[manual_overide]

I think he said he didn't have a boot disk?

You can usually use your install CD as a boot disk. I don't remember what the command is though. Slackware support page might have it, or look it up somewhere. But I know for a fact that you can probably use your CD as a boot disk.

Once you are back in linux, edit /etc/lilo.conf with a line like

other = /dev/hdax
label = windows

where x is the partition windows is on.

Then run lilo again. When you reboot, you should get the lilo prompt.

[optech]

it's still a mystery why windows would do that though...
it's like
"oh no, another OS!!! get rid of it!!"
that's a real pain in the ***...
i may just format that partition and wait for slackware this weekend (it's coming!) because i don't really like SuSe anyways... not quite up to my standards... i find it too slow, but when i had slackware on here, it was nice and fast... weird

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"...seldom give ungaurded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." J.R.R. Tolkien

[tompoe]

Hi: Try this article for the BIG picture: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue38/veselosky.html

Tom