Help for reinstalling LILO

[Vincent Wong]

My windows Me suddenly crashed and needed to reinstalled.
So I reinstall it but after that I know that my LILO was overwrited by Win Me.

Now I can't go to my linux.
I haven't created a backupdisk. :(

:confused: So how can I visit my linux distro again?

Thanks!

[PLBlaze]

Well, you did not specify what distro...and it's late for me to explain in details,

Try to boot off of your distro cdrom and at the prompt specify the root partition that you installed Linux to eg. root=/dev/hda1

where /dev/hda1 is your Linux partition

If all goes well :) your system will boot then you will need to recreate the boot by running /sbin/lilo (might want to read man lilo for proper restoration procedures).Hope this helps.

[Vincent Wong]

Oh I forgot!
I use redhat 7.0

I put in my install cd and I see a prompt

root:

I tried what you said but it can't boot to my redhat.

It seems that it hasn't detect my hardware

[bdg1983]

Try booting from the install cd again and at the prompt, enter

boot root=/dev/hda#

where # is the Linux boot/root partition.

That should work and then rerun /sbin/lilo